A GUTU woman died from excessive genital burns after her polygamist husband burnt her buttocks and thighs with a red hot log before shoving it into her privates.
Grace Johanisi was subjected to the horrific attack by the drunk husband after he accused her of having an extra marital affair, a local court heard on Thursday.
The husband, Israel Chimwai (age not given), was granted bail for the vile December 21, 2009 attack when he made his initial appearance at the Masvingo magistrate's court.
Chimwai, Dewure East farms, failed to turn up for trial Thursday on murder charges at the High Court, which is currently on circuit in Masvingo. A warrant was immediately issued for his arrest.
According to court papers, Israel, a polygamist with two wives, first battered his second spouse with a cooking stick until it broke into pieces.
He then pulled a smouldering piece of wood from the fire and burnt his wife's thighs and buttocks before shoving the burning wood into her privates.
A doctor's report attached to court documents shows that the woman died five days later from extensive sepsis, an infection resulting from deep and large openings in the skin.
Prosecutors said the fatal row was sparked by a bar of soap brought home by Isriel's son with his first wife, Clive.
The boy is said to have picked up the bar of soap while herding cattle along the nearby Dewure River and took it to his mother who was milking some cows at the time with his father.
Israel however, instructed the boy to take the soap to the second wife, Grace.
But in the evening Israel returned home drunk and threatened to throw the boy into the fire if he did not reveal where he had got the soap from.
Frightened for his life, the boy allegedly said he got the soap from a man he met at the river who asked him to take it to his step-mother.
Israel lost his temper and started assaulting his second wife, until he shoved the burning log into her private parts.
Source: newzimbabwe
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