A 21-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi woman was on Monday slapped with a
one-year jail term by a Guruve magistrate for dumping her new-born child a
fortnight ago.
Brenda Charles of Suwoguru township, Mvurwi, pleaded guilty
before magistrate Shingirai Mutiro, who jailed her for a year.
Prosecutor Carson Kundiona told the court that two weeks
ago, Charles wrapped her baby, with the umbilical cord still attached, in a
sack and dumped him.
The new-born boy was picked up by a passer-by before being
surrendered to the police. Charles’ mother was not available when the crime was
committed, but when she came back last Friday she suspected that her daughter
had dumped her new-born child and filed a police report, leading to the
convict’s arrest.
In another case, a Guruve woman, Auxillia Dzukamanja was
arrested last week for allegedly murdering her new-born child before throwing
it down a blair toilet.
One of the residents believes the accused killed the baby
due to economic hardships after she failed to locate the baby’s father.
“Dzukamanja killed her baby due to poverty. She failed to
locate the father of the child and decided to kill the baby,” the witness, who
declined to be named, said. Newsday
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