A 40- year old Lusaka woman of Ten Miles area has cried to the Lusaka Boma Local Court for over 52 weeks of sexual starvation despite being married to a healthy and able-bodied man.
Justina Mukuka told court that despite her marriage slowly but surely withering away due to sexual drought, she found a packet of condoms in the pockets of her husband’s clothes just last week.
Ms Mukuka also mentioned that not only has her husband and father of three children Ishmael Lange being starvating her sexually but also abuses her physically.
In fact one of Justina’s fingers faces possible amputation following the bite she received from her husband just last week.
Tired of the beatings and lack of bedroom action, Justina now petitioned for her marriage with Lange to be dissolved.
And according to Kalemba, Justina told Lusaka Boma Local justice Prudence Bwalya, that not only does her husband abscond from his bedroom duties but that he does also not eat the meals she prepares in their matrimonial home and that he has cut financial support to the family.
Given chance to speak, Lange said he had no objections to Justina’s petition for their union to be dissolved especially that she was not welcoming to his relatives.
Lange complained that Justina had expelled his nephew from their home and forced him to go and stay with his friends.
On biting Justina, Lange said he had only resorted to bite his wife because she was annoying.
On account of the violence and lack of love as shown by the couple, the court dismantled their marriage.
Justice Bwalya observed that a marriage with no bedroom action for a protracted duration meant that partners had no desire to be together.
She ordered Lange to compensate Justina with K10,000 which should be paid in K700 monthly installments with another K700 monthly child support