By A Correspondent- In a very embarrassing development, a male boarding master at Washington High School was recently exposed of trying to prey on female students after he allegedly fondled a 15-year-old pupil’s breasts at their rendezvous.

Alouis Mhondiwa was recently convicted of indecent assault after the victim of his sexual pursuits spilled the beans.

Appearing before Harare magistrate Mrs Sharon Rakafa, Mhondiwa was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

She suspended eight months on condition that the accused does not commit a similar offence and the remaining 10 months on condition that Mhondiwa performs 350 hours of community service at Waterfalls Clinic.

During the trial the girl said:

The first day we had gone to the dining hall for studies and a female guard sent me with her phone to the accused person. That was when we arranged how we would meet later that night.

I managed to sneak out of the hostels with three of my friends that were also going to meet their boyfriends. I went to his house. He began touching me and I started feeling different and requested to leave. When I returned to the hostels I told my friend about the incident and planned to return back to the accused person’s residence.

The school authorities heard of the matter and the incident was reported to the police, leading to Mhondiwa’s arrest.

However, the information provided from the trial does not reveal how the alleged indecent assault sexual assault came to light and also whether the complainant and the accused were in a relationship since the complainant had hatched the plan together with her friends to sneak out of their hostels and see their ‘boyfriends’.

Talkmore Muganhiri prosecuted the case.

-StateMedia