Botswana: Sex Workers On the Attack
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
The dark side of filthy street sex-trade became darker for a Francistown man who was hammered on the head with an iron bar after the alleged traders rejected his money offer.
Feeling jilted, the enraged and wounded 28-year old Molebi Mosugadikobo allegedly torched a house belonging to some Zimbabwean women believed to be prostitutes.
This week Mosugadikobo appeared before a Francistown Magistrates court. Although he was nabbed at the scene shortly after the crime, the young man pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Mosugadikobo, whose apparent intentions was to have a fling with one of three Zimbabwean women on the fateful night, allegedly broke the door and forced his way in after the occupants refused to open for him. Suspicious that the intruder might be a thief, one of the women said she attacked Mosugadikobo with an iron bar on the head when he stepped in their rented Monarch house.