Hubby sued for demanding conjugal rights

09 Aug, 2019 - 00:08 0 Views
Hubby sued for demanding conjugal rights Bonwell Manjeya

The ManicaPost

Weekender Correspondent
A Mutare woman whose diabetic husband allegedly coerces her to have sex, has approached the courts for protection, claiming it is for the good of the husband’s health.

Constance Manjeya applied for a protection order against her lawfully wedded husband, Bonwell Manjeya, accusing him of sexually abusing her even though she had made a vow of celibacy due to the husband’s ill-health. Magistrate Prisca Tendai Manhibi presided over the matter.

She told the court that her husband seduced her at every chance given coercing her to be intimate with her, something that was causing her emotional breakdown.

“Your Worship, he is a diabetic patient and I do not want to cause complications to his health because of moments of intimacy. I know that if something happens to him, then I will be the one to be blamed. Because of that, I have minimised the times that we share the marital bed, for the good of  his health and also my emotional well-being.

“However, Your Worship, this man keeps seducing me every day and night, making it hard for me to deny him the intimacy. I want him to respect the fact that if I do not want to have sex with him, he should not force me or go against my will by seducing me. I am tired your worship of his sexual abuses,” explained Constance.

She further complained to the court that her husband was violent if she denied him what he wanted. She said he shifted the anger to their children by assaulting, harassing and insulting them.

Bonwell however, told the court that he had problems with the granting of the order stating that it would strip him of his powers as the head of the family.

He also denied ever sexually abusing his wife stating that it was his right to be intimate with his wife.

“Your Worship, I do not abuse her but this woman is not open to discussion in our home. She is a hard nut to crack, and if anyone is to be granted a protection order, it should be me,” he argued.

He told the court that with his wife, they had planned that their intimacy and other matters threatening to break apart their family be dealt with by his in-laws.

“We were supposed to go to my in-laws last Saturday for help on all these matters but she just disappeared from home on Friday. Since then, I have not seen her. It has been four days since I last saw her and she will not tell me where she was,” he told the court.

Magistrate Manhibi warned Bonwell against the sexual abuse on his wife and told him that it could lead him in jail if he keeps doing it.

“You might think that you have right over her since she is your lawfully-wedded wife, but you do not have right to sexually abuse, rape or force anyone without consent be they your wife or anyone else.

“It is a criminal offence and if she reports you, you will be prosecuted,” warned Ms Manhibi.

She granted the protection order to Constance against Bonwell but advised the latter to make his own application for peace if he was also being harassed, insulted or assaulted as he had claimed.

The order is valid for five years.

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