'Chastity belt’ man jailed for life

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'Chastity belt’ man jailed for life

PORT MORESBY: A 42-year-old man who raped and bounded his sister-in-law with a homemade “chastity belt” was jailed for life by the National Court in Lae on July 30, 2021.

Justice John Kaumi, in sentencing Robin Godwin Audari Borezi, said the case was the first of its kind to come before the court.

 

What is a chastity belt:

 

A chastity belt is a locking item of clothing designed to prevent sexual intercourse or masturbation. Such belts were historically designed for women, ostensibly for the purpose of chastity, to protect women from rape or to dissuade women and their potential sexual partners from sexual temptation. Modern versions of the chastity belt are predominantly, but not exclusively, used in the BDSM community, and chastity belts are now designed for male wearers in addition to female wearers. 

Venetian chastity belt on display in the Doge's palace. (Claimed to be 16th–17th century.)

According to modern myths, the chastity belt was used as an anti-temptation device during the Crusades. When the knight left for the Holy Lands on the Crusades, his Lady would wear a chastity belt to preserve her faithfulness to him. However, there is no credible evidence that chastity belts existed before the 15th century (over a century after the last Middle Eastern Crusade), and their main period of apparent use falls within the Renaissance rather than the Middle Ages. Research into the history of the chastity belt suggests that they were not used until the 16th century, and then only rather rarely; they first became widely available in the form of 19th-century anti-masturbation medical devices.

Renaissance chastity belts were said to have had padded linings (to prevent large areas of metal from coming into direct prolonged contact with the skin), and these had to be changed fairly frequently, so that such belts were not practical for uninterrupted long-term wear. Uninterrupted long-term wear could have caused genitourinary infection, abrasive wounds, sepsis and eventual death. - Wikipedia

 The sentencing was reported by The National:

 

Man gets life for sexual abuse

August 6, 2021The NationalMain Stories

By JIMMY KALEBE
A MAN who pierced his sister-in-law’s genitalia with a nail, locked it with a padlock and subjecting her to grievous bodily harm and rape in 2017 has been jailed for life.
Sentencing Robin Godwin Audari Borezi, 42, last Friday at the National Court in Lae, Justice John Kaumi ordered that he should serve his sentence in Buimo Prison for aggravated rape and causing grievous bodily harm with intent on his sister-in-law.
Borezi is from Dabari village in Northern’s Sohe district. Justice Kaumi said the case was the first of its kind to come before the court.
He told Borezi that he could appeal the decision.
The court heard that Borezi, between Nov 1 and 30 in 2017, at Abunaka Mountain, 9-Mile, outside Lae, wounded and sexually penetrated his sister-in-law.
Borezi locked the woman inside the house.
He threatened to kill her if she reported the matter.
He tortured the woman by piercing her vagina and later putting a padlock through the holes and locking it whenever he left the house.
Borezi was told by Justice Kaumi that he had breached the position of trust, authority and dependency as the brother of the woman’s husband.

 

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