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Judge frees teenage boy accused of impregnating his girlfriend

A man who was jailed for 15 years for allegedly defiling and making his underage girlfriend pregnant has been freed.

Justice Said Chitembwe ruled that it was unfair for the magistrate to jail Lodgers Tsofa Facho when his girlfriend had admitted they were in a long-term intimate relationship and were planning to eventually marry.

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