The boy stuck to his story that nothing was wrong. She said the accused person then rushed from the house when he heard her questioning the boy and said he had brought an avocado for the boy. He just said he wanted to go to the toilet,' said the grandmother. When I questioned him, he refused to speak. I immediately suspected that something was wrong. His head was hanging down and he looked utterly dejected. 'I called his name and he came out of the neighbour's house walking in a strange manner. The boy's grandmother said on the day the incident occurred, she came home in the afternoon and found the boy missing. The boy's mother, who travelled from South Africa after she heard the story, could hardly speak because of grief. Some residents vowed to castrate the man if they ever saw him again. They said he had a rape case thrown out of court due to lack of evidence last year. Residents in the suburb on Monday said the man was an ex-convict who was jailed for seven years in 2002 after being found guilty of rape. The man allegedly took advantage of the absence of the boy's grandmother to lure him to his house on 18 August where he abused him. A 34-YEAR-OLD man from Entumbane suburb in Bulawayo is on the run after allegedly sodomising his neighbour's six-year-old son and forcing him to swallow his semen.
