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Teen to be caned over Facebook slur

Zimbabwean prostitutes working in Hillbrow have no protection from the police and do little to help each other. Pic: Jackie Clausen. © Sunday Times.
Zimbabwean prostitutes working in Hillbrow have no protection from the police and do little to help each other. Pic: Jackie Clausen. © Sunday Times.

He posted a photo of a woman and called her a prostitute

A court in Zimbabwe has sentenced a 17-year-old boy to be caned after he posted a picture of a woman on Facebook with a caption that called her a prostitute, state media said Monday.

The Herald newspaper said magistrate Tinashe Ndokera found the boy guilty of criminal insult, and ordered that he be caned twice.

The teenager from the southeastern town of Chiredzi confessed to  taking a photo of the woman without her knowledge as she made a phone call at her office on February 6.

“Later that evening, he posted the woman’s picture on his Facebook profile and below the picture he wrote (in the local Shona  language): 'These are Chiredzi’s prostitutes',” The Herald said.

The woman discovered her picture when she logged on to Facebook and alerted police, who arrested the boy.

Caning is a common sentence in Zimbabwe, but only for minors deemed too young to serve prison terms.

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