Kwekwe Magistrates’ Court personnel had to temporarily
abandon their duties and assume a midwifery role as they assisted a Kwekwe
Polytechnic student who went into labour while awaiting sentence.
Twenty-two-year-old Patience Kutama of Mkoba in Gweru was
awaiting her sentence for stealing a cellphone from a reveller in a club, when
she went into labour before giving birth to a bouncing baby girl with the
assistance of court personnel.
She was later rushed to Kwekwe General Hospital where the
court followed up to deliver her sentence.
Kutama was jointly charged with Lisa Tongogara, also 22,
and were each sentenced to a wholly suspended seven months jail term on
condition they do not commit a similar offence in the next five years. Kutama,
in her defence, told Kwekwe magistrate Miss Vimbai Mtukwa that she was dumped
by her boyfriend and she wanted money to buy provisions for the baby.
“I am really sorry for what I did. I had run out of options
as I needed money to fend for myself and the baby,” she told the court.
According to State papers, on 22 March 2019 the two accused
were drinking beer at King Solomon’s Hotel when they met Calvin Zepi. At around
2am, Zepi got drunk and fell asleep while holding his cellphone, a Samsung J7.
The two accused then took the phone and hid it. Zeti made a police report the
following morning. Kutama and Tongogara went to Gweru where they sold the phone
for $80.
Detectives, however, managed to track the phone using a
mobile tracker leading to the arrest of the two accused persons. The mobile
phone was also recovered. B Metro
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