The Zimbabwe Republic Police has arrested Evans Momberume, a man who is accused of bedding Memory Machaya, a 14-year-old girl who died while giving birth.
According to multiple reports, Momberume is set to appear before Mutare’s magistrate today.
Memory Machaya died while giving birth at a shrine of the Johanne Marange church in Marange on July 15.
Her death caused an outcry, with the United Nations condemning the prevalence of child marriages in Zimbabwe especially within white garment churches.
Momberume is set to be charged with having se_xual intercourse or performing indecent acts with a young person which carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
Memory was forced to drop out of school in Mhondoro while in Form 1 after she was married off to Momberume, who is believed to be in his mid-to-late-twenties.
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