APA – Kigali (Rwanda) – A Rwandan court has given Dr Christopher Kayumba, a politician who recently launched of an opposition platform a two-year suspended sentence for the attempted rape of a young woman who worked at his home.
Accusations that Kayumba also sexually assaulted one of his female students while he was a lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Rwanda became public in March 2021 which prompted the judicial police to launch an investigation about the crime.
Apart from the female housekeeper, another former student at the University of Rwanda came out last year and testified that her lecturer then, Dr. Kayumba, assaulted her and attempted to force her into a sexual encounter from his house.
“He pulled and pushed me on the couch trying to force me to sleep with him [sexual intercourse],” a friend of the student narrated her ordeal in a Twitter thread.
Apparently, the lady managed to escape Kayumba’s assault, but she said it was “an eternity of emotional and psychological torture.”
The prosecution further indicated that Dr. Kayumba as he had power over his housemaid, sexually abused her without consent.
The prosecution also points out that since the court relied on the absence of expert testimony, the judge ignored the fact that the expert testimony is not the only one that should be relied upon.
Meanwhile, Dr. Kayumba denies the allegations and has always branded the charges as politically motivated.
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