After appearing in court recently for a defilement he allegedly committed last year, a Medie/Kweneg Councillor was back at Molepolole Magistrates’ Court last Monday for another defilement charge.
The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Councillor, Kweneng Councilor Edward Shanakane, was arrested by the police last Sunday for his second case of child abuse.
Last week, he stood in court charged with unlawful carnal knowledge of a 16-year-old girl that he has been apparently sleeping with since December 2020.
The 38-year-old councillor allegedly committed the latest offence while he was on bail for the first offence. However, the truth came out when the relatives blew her cover by telling her inquisitive mother that she never spent even a single night with them.
The suspicious mother then extracted the disturbing truth out of her daughter, who revealed that she had been sleeping at the councillor’s house. He will appear for mention on July 11th, 2022 while for the other case he will appear for final case management conference to set trial dates on September 27th, 2022.
