The sentencing of a former police officer charged with the murder of his daughter has been postponed to Friday after mitigation arguments were heard in the Katima Mulilo Circuit High Court in the Zambezi Region.

37-year-old Sydney Ikosa was found guilty of murder, negligence, and deliberate abuse of his daughter, as well as common assault under the Domestic Violence Act, by Judge President Petrus Damaseb at the end of last month (August).

A 28-year-old man charged with the murder of his biological son in Otavi made his first appearance before the town's magistrate court.

Thomas Muronga is accused of fatally injuring his two-year-old son, Jason Muronga.

He allegedly forcibly took the child from his 24-year-old girlfriend, who is also the baby's mother, and then proceeded to a railway line in the town. There, it is alleged, he struck the child's head against concrete poles twice.

Jason died of severe head injuries the same day at the Otjiwarongo State Hospital.

A 13-year-old minor is pregnant after allegedly being raped by her father.

The incident occurred in December at the Owambo location in Grootforntein.

It is alleged that the suspect (44), who is the biological father of the victim, raped the victim three times on different days, and in the process, the victim became pregnant.

According to the Namibian Police, the suspect also allegedly threatened to kill the victim with a knife if she told anyone.

The girl is a Grade 8 learner in the Grootfontein district.