pro-Kabila MP)
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There is definitely "equal opportunity" in the number of pervs
populating both wings of the political spectrum in the National
Assembly.
There was first pro-Tshisekedi MP Diomi Ndongala who went into hiding
a while ago after being accused of having repeated sexual intercourses
with two underage sisters.
Now is the turn of former RCD warlord and current pro-Kabila MP
Adolphe Onusumba, who was placed Monday under house arrest after
appearing at the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) for statutory rape of
his underaged ward, Ms. Mireille Owale Kalema.
(Strangely, the Congolese justice system makes short shrift of the
identity of rape victims--and in this case, an underage victim. The
case was brought to the Supreme Court of Justice as "The people and
Ms. Mireille Owale Kalema vs. Hon. Adolphe Onusumba for rape on
Minor"--and featured the live testimony of the rape victim.)
MP Adolphe Onasumbu was nabbed Sunday, September 23, in a room of Dom
III Hotel, in the Barumbu Commune, where he was having sex with his
17-year-old ward.
Mireille Owale's aunt reportedly tailed the couple to the hotel, and
then called cops at the live crime scene.
MP Onusumba, who hails from the constituency of Lodja (Oriental Kasai
Province), took Mireille Owale and her unidentified brother under his
legal guardianship in 2007 and brought them to Kinshasa.
At Monday's crowded court hearing, the CSJ mainly dealt with the
victim's underage status as well as the non-consensual nature of the
sexual encounters brought by General Prosecutor of the Republic (PGR)
Mireille Owale and her lawyer.
MP Onusumba maintained it was consensual sex with a woman who was no
longer underage.
He even produced a photocopy of the alleged voter's registration card
of Mireille Owale issued by CENI for the November 2011 general
elections that gave her age as 22.
(For all legal intent and purposes, the voter's registration card also
serves as the official ID of Congolese citizens.)
Owale denied having ever seen that voter's registration card, produced
her school transcripts that back her age claim, and told the Court: "I
gave in to his sexual advances out of fear."
But, rehearsing the usual defense pedophiles and rapists, MP Onusumba
blamed the victim for seducing him.
Claiming that he was the victim of a double-cross, MP Onusumba told the court:
"I never had sexual relationships with her in 2007. Only three times
since the beginning of this year.
"The sexual relationship were consensual and initiated by her. The
girl kept sending me text messages soliciting those encounters.
"It was her harassments that seduced me."
MP Onusumba further made a self-serving self-incriminating admission
to the court, alleging he'd illegally reduced the age of Mireille
Owale when he had her register at her new school in the Bas-Congo
Province in 2007.
The court ordered the PGR to send detectives Tuesday at CENI to
investigate the matter related to the issuance of the voter's
registration card to Mireille Owale.
The Court also ordered the victim to undergo age tests at the
coroner's labs as there were contradictory documents produced at the
CSJ!
"Age tests"?
MP Onusumba's age defense is preposterous.
Does he mean that he would have gotten away with passing a 17-year-old
young woman for a 12-year-old, in 2007, when he successfully
petitioned for guardianship of Mireille Owale?
In any event, if convicted, MP Adolphe Onusumba faces between 3 to 20
years behind bars.
--(With Kinshasa media)--
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PHOTO CREDITS: Via: africatime.com
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