A man hurt three sisters who were weak and defenseless by doing terrible things to them. He abused them physically and sexually many times, while they were in their own house.
A court heard that a man named Jackson Katjombe, who is 37 years old, attacked the siblings many times on their farm in the town of Otjimbingwe in Namibia.
One person who was hurt was only 8 years old, while another was a 25-year-old woman who has disabilities and thinks like a child.
She is not able to walk or use her arms, so she moves by crawling and using a wheelchair. She also gets help from her siblings.
According to court documents, the third victim was 19 years old at the time and showed a small difficulty but seemed to be more mature emotionally.
According to The Namibian, Katjombe would often focus on the sisters when their aunt had to go to Windhoek, the capital city. Their mom, who had HIV, was in the hospital there.
Their aunt would ask neighbors and other family members to watch over the siblings when she was in the city, but there were times when the siblings were on their own.
Katjombe, who lived close by, was found responsible for three acts of rape and two acts of physical assault in June.
On Friday, he was put in prison for 35 years. The Windhoek High Court heard that he caused extreme trauma and nightmares for his victims.
Katjombe, a father of three who tried to say he didn’t do anything wrong, would sometimes force his victims to watch him sexually assault someone else.
In one attack, he put a pillow on the 19-year-old’s face and then she yelled and told her little sister to bite Katjombe.
When the little girl was only eight years old, she tried to help her sibling by biting Katjombe on the back.
This made it possible for the 19-year-old to escape and run to their uncle, but Katjombe took advantage of this opportunity to run away from their home.
The young woman who cannot move easily told the court about a time when she was playing with a doll before Katjombe forced her to have sex against her will.
Katjombe’s terrible actions became known when the sisters’ family members noticed that their behavior was different.
They were very sad and would sometimes get really angry and stop eating. The eight-year-old girl refused to let anyone give her a bath.
The sisters said that Katjombe frightened them by saying he would harm them if they told anyone about what happened. However, they eventually found the courage to talk about the difficult situation they were in.
Katjombe was cleared of a charge of seriously hurting someone on purpose and three charges of scaring or threatening someone.