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Magistrate Ms Shelly Zvenyika on Monday dismissed Agnes Muganhu’s civil suit against Rishon Duri after he impregnated her 16-year-old daughter.

She said Muganhu had no legal right to claim anything from Duri.

“It is this court’s finding that the plaintiff has no legal standing to sue for seduction damages for her daughter, therefore the application is dismissed,” Ms Zvenyika ruled.

She said only the girl’s father could sue for such damages since he was the one who receives lobola in terms of customary law.

Duri allegedly impregnated the teenager who subsequently dropped out of school.

“My daughter was a virgin and this man slept with her hence breaking her virginity and now she is a mother, who will marry her?” she complained.

Muganhu also told the court that she had high expectations for her daughter whom she expected to go all the way to being a university graduate and have a white wedding.

In his defence, Duri said he was not in a position to meet Muganhu’s demands adding that the girl’s mother was aware of the relationship as he had stayed with the teenager for almost nine months.

“I do not know why she wants me to compensate her because she knew about this relationship way before she fell pregnant.

“I stayed with her daughter for nine months and her mother came and took her away from me,” he said.

Meanwhile, a 16-year-old boy was yesterday sentenced to a wholly-suspended three-month prison term by a Mbare magistrate for having sex with a 14-year-old minor while another of a similar age is facing the same charges.

Magistrate Tendai Rusinahama suspended the jail term on condition the boy does not commit a similar offence in the next five years.

Prosecutor Mr Tungamirirai Muganhire proved beyond doubt that the boy and the minor were having an affair.

Mr Muganhire told the court that the boy invited the girl to his house and they became intimate.

The teenagers, he said, continued with the sexual relationship for some time until the girl fell pregnant.

The girl managed to conceal the pregnancy until her little sister spilled the beans. She later admitted that she was eight months pregnant and a report was made to the police leading to the boy’s arrest.

In a related case, a 16-year-old boy from Kuwadzana also appeared before the same magistrate facing charges of having sex with a minor.

The boy pleaded not guilty to the charges claiming that he was not aware that the girl was a minor.

Ms Rusinahama set the trial for November 27.

According to the State, led by prosecutor Mr Muganhi, in June and July this year, the boy took the minor to his friend’s house where they engaged in intimacy.

The matter came to light when the minor’s mother noticed that she was pregnant and made a report to the police.