The couple Luwini Ngoni Rugova 37 and her husband Freddy
Katandika 32, was not asked to plead when they appeared before Harare
magistrate Judith Taruvinga who remanded them in custody.
It is the State’s case that on June 24 at around 9pm, Rugova, who is the step mother to the grade 3
girl advised her husband Katandika that the child was playing with her step
brother’s phone.
Katandika then took a stick and assaulted the complainant
several times all over her body then forcibly placed the victim’s hands on a
hot stove and after the act ordered her to go to sleep.
Rugoya, as the child’s step mother never sought medication
or treatment for her and the child ended up using salt on the burns and wrapped
the burns in a bandage.
A tip off was made to the police leading to the couple’s
arrest and she was treated at Harare Hospital burns unit. Moses Mapanga
appeared for the State. H Metro
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