SERIAL LIVESTOCK RAPIST ARRESTED

MLIBA - In an unusual and shocking incident, Mliba police arrested a man who had allegedly committed serial cases of bestiality around the area.

The rare incident was unravelled by mysterious deaths of livestock at a homestead situated at Mliba, in the outskirts of the Manzini region. The family decided to institute an investigation after discovering one cow dead inside their kraal, days before the apprehension of the suspect. The cause of death for the cow was not immediately ascertained, which became a cause for concern for the family, since it was not the first time they woke up to a dead cow.

*Sabelo said he launched a personal investigation and what he discovered led to the arrest of the man who is also his neighbour. The suspect’s name is known to this publication, but will not be named pending his appearance in court.
The investigation by *Sabelo led to a discovery that their livestock was allegedly subjected to unusual sexual acts before being killed.

Sabelo revealed that the suspect voluntarily confessed to the act of bestiality and killing of the livestock. The Collins Dictionary defines bestiality as a sexual activity in which a person has sex with an animal. Other dictionaries defined it as the act of sexual relations between a human being and an animal.

Bestiality

Section 45 of the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Act, No. 15 of 2018 popularly known as the SODV Act defines bestiality as causing the penetration of a person’s genital organs into the genital organs, mouth, or anus of an animal; causing the penetration of the genital organs of an animal into the genital organs, mouth, or anus of that person; or masturbating an animal. The offence carries a maximum sentence term in prison with an option of a fine amounting to E25 000.

Sabelo disclosed that after discovering the dead cow, they followed footprints from the kraal in an attempt to track down the assailant. He stated that the footprints led them to his neighbour’s home. He mentioned that they were not even suspecting that the assailant could be their neighbour. Sabelo said they were further shocked when the suspect volunteered the information and elaborated on how he had sex with the animals.

“He voluntarily confessed after we tracked footprints found near the dead cow. We did not even assault him, hence I am boldly saying he volunteered the information and made the confession out of his own freewill,” clarified Sabelo.
He said the suspect, after being tracked down, did not even show any signs of remorsefulness but remained calm throughout his voluntary confession.

Sabelo said they were initially angry when the suspect confessed to killing the cow, but their anger was immediately replaced by shock when he gave details of how he sexually assaulted the cows before killing them.  “I am still shocked at the confessions he made. We never thought he could have had sex with the animals and we are even shocked as to why he then killed them, as if they were going to report him for his act. This is absurd and spine chilling,” he added.

He said they had to exercise serious restraint to avoid assaulting him and decided to open a case against him at the police station. He further admitted that the discovery was very disturbing for his family, as they were worried about past mysterious deaths of livestock in the family. Sabelo said his family had lost four cows, but never even suspected that such could have been a result of a sexual act by their neighbour.

Bestiality is also a crime in many countries while, in 2018, Japan and a few other countries had no laws against bestiality, nor the sale or ownership of pornography that features animals and sexual acts. Though, in these countries, the act was not stated to be legal or illegal.

Suspect

However, Sabelo said he persuaded the suspect to at least share the reasoning behind his obsession towards having sex with animals as compared to human beings. He revealed that he went to school with the suspect, hence he needed to ascertain the reasons behind his actions. He said the suspect was relaxed and not bothered about the damage he had done, but complained about the female gender for not accepting his approaches.

“He said once he had engaged with the cow he would insert a rod inside the vulva of the cow until it dies. He could not even explain the act in full and mentioned even other different ways of how he killed the animals,” said Sabelo.
He also said had it not been someone he knew, he would have failed to suppress the anger and desire to assault the suspect because he was calm and explained everything as if he was narrating a good story. He said the suspect continued to remain calm even in the presence of the police while he confessed his crimes.

Sabelo disclosed that after the news of the suspect’s arrest in the area, a number of people came up to reveal different incidents of bestiality by the man. He said they all claimed the suspect sexually abused their livestock. A community member, *Thuli who stays along the way to Khuphuka also disclosed that they once caught the suspect red-handed, sexually assaulting a goat. She revealed that the suspect was also unbothered by being found in a compromised position with the goat.

Meanwhile, Andre Botha from the Swaziland Animal Welfare Society a self-funded, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the welfare of animals in Eswatini said the act was unnatural. Our sister publication Eswatini News team further interviewed other government officials who said such a matter was sensitive and an obvious abuse of the animals. They requested not to comment further since the matter was now in the hands of the law enforcers.

“It’s a sensitive matter, the matter is at its rightful place with state police. We hope it will be dealt with accordingly,” said the officials. Local herdboys revealed that the suspect was caught a numerous times attempting to have sex with animals and it was suspected that there were many other instances where he was not caught. “To be honest, at first, I did not know what the man was up to, when I started moving towards him, he heard footsteps and fled as he pulled his pants upwards,” said *Thabiso a herdboy. 

Chief Police Information and Communication officer Superintendent Phindile Vilakati confirmed the arrest of a man on allegations bestiality. She said the suspect was found in a compromised position with different livestock in the area. However, Vilakati said the man was referred the psychiatric centre for mental evaluation.
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