Family mourns boy’s death, grapples with suspect’s past
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In Namibia, Dickson Karomuine stands accused of murdering his former partner’s 11-year-old son, Gephardt Doëseb, who disappeared from Rehoboth on 11 September.
Richard Doëseb, Gephardt’s uncle, explained the family once welcomed Karomuine as a brother-in-law and treated him like a son after he began dating Rodensia Doëses, Gephardt’s mother. The family remembers Karomuine as a kind man who neither drank nor smoked and worked as a taxi driver.
Gephardt, a fifth-grade student, did not return home from school on 11 September, and his body was found the next day in a riverbed near Rehoboth by girls tending livestock. Gephardt’s grandfather, Paul Links, described a very close relationship with the boy, sharing time and even a bed with him.
The family now struggles to understand how someone they accepted and loved could be connected to this crime, adding to their grief over Gephardt’s death and the loss of a child deeply loved by those around him.
