{"id":93865,"date":"2021-10-15T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=93865"},"modified":"2021-10-15T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:13:14","slug":"90-year-old-man-jailed-for-defiling-his-two-granddaughters-aged-10-and-11-claims-the-victims-seduced-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/15\/90-year-old-man-jailed-for-defiling-his-two-granddaughters-aged-10-and-11-claims-the-victims-seduced-him\/","title":{"rendered":"90-year-old man jailed for defiling his two granddaughters aged 10 and 11, claims the victims &#8216;seduced him&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 90-year-old grandfather, Lester Danken, has been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for defiling his two granddaughters aged 10 and 11, at Kufunda Village, Traditional Authority Kachere in Dedza, Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>Dedza Police Deputy Public Relations Officer, Sergeant Cassim Manda, who disclosed this on Friday, said during trial, Danken admitted to raping the children but was quick to say he committed the offence because the victims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/16\/how-officer-in-charge-of-suleja-prisons-allegedly-seduced-inmates-wife-impregnated-married-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seduced<\/a> him.<\/p>\n<p>State Prosecutor, Sub Inspector Mercy Scott, explained in court that Danken in September 2021 sexually forced himself on the first victim.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s mother who stays close to Danken&#8217;s house was surprised to see her daughter coming out of her grandfather&#8217;s house with her underwear in her hand.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93867 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/10\/kunlenet07\/2021\/10\/15\/Lester-Danken.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/10\/kunlenet07\/2021\/10\/15\/Lester-Danken.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/10\/kunlenet07\/2021\/10\/15\/Lester-Danken-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/10\/kunlenet07\/2021\/10\/15\/Lester-Danken-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/10\/kunlenet07\/2021\/10\/15\/Lester-Danken-768x1366.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The state prosecutor further told the court that when the victim was quizzed, she revealed that Danken had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/06\/malawian-man-arrested-for-allegedly-raping-his-male-flatmate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raping<\/a> her since last year and he was giving her K100 with promise that the sexual abuse will boost her breasts.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor further told the court that Danken voluntarily told Police of the second victim. Both victims were issued with medical report forms for examination at the hospital which later certified that they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/06\/19\/i-did-not-want-to-die-alone-and-leave-her-to-suffer-kenyan-man-who-defiled-infected-daughter-with-hiv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defiled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Scott asked the court to give the convict a deterrent sentence to act as a warning to other would be offenders.<\/p>\n<p>In his sentence, Senior Resident Magistrate Clemence Chamwenda agreed with the state and observed that the convict was supposed to protect the victims being a grandparent, and that the victims are traumatised, hence a custodial sentence without looking at the age factor could fit him.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Chamwenda went on to slap the grandfather with 21 years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/09\/ugandan-pastor-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-for-sodomising-pupils\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imprisonment<\/a> without hard labour on each count. 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