Real trouble after church head had sex with wife's Niece

THE Matero local court was sent into cold feet upon learning how a church leader had sex with his wife’s niece who had visited from the village.
It was heard that the clergyman took advantage of the girl after his wife was hospitalised for a period of time.
Isaac Mulilo, 37, of Emmasdale, a leader in one of the churches in Lusaka, was forced to have sex with his wife’s niece, Mary, upon gazing at her underwear which she was drying where she used to sleep.
This was a case in which Agnes Mwanza, 28, a hair dresser of Luangwa Township sued her husband, Isaac Mulilo, 37, of Emmasdale for divorce.
Mwanza told senior court magistrate Pauline Newa that the two got married in 2010 and had one child. Dowry was partly paid.
She said there was never a time when the couple had peace in their marriage because Mulilo started beating her when their son was only three weeks old.
Mwanza told the court that her husband started having sex with her niece from the village the time she was hospitalised due to an ovary problem which developed in 2015.
“At around 04:00 hours I became suspicious because he woke up and followed my niece and later on he got a basin and went outside to wash himself and when I followed him, he said he had diarrhoea,” Mwanza said.
Mwanza said her husband had even reached the extent of not bathing from home and shunning eating, a matter she reported to the church bishop.
She said the problem escalated and the two started fighting and in the process she sustained a knee injury.
Mwanza said Mulilo had even saved her name in his phone as January 18 and saved another woman as girlfriend.
In defence, Mulilo said he still loved his wife but blamed her for being quick in taking action when she did not have any proper evidence.
He, however, denied making love to Mary in court stating that the reason he had earlier admitted was because he respected the girl’s uncle so much.
Passing judgment, magistrate Newa granted the couple divorce.
The magistrate ordered Mulilo to compensate Mwanza K7,000 with initial payment of K1,000 followed by monthly installments of K300.
She also told Mulilo to be paying Mwanza K300 for child maintenance and share the property between themselves.