Horror As Mother Dumps Own Baby In Pit Latrine

A WOMAN from Avoca in Filabusi is in trouble after she allegedly dumped her baby boy in a pit latrine because she was not able to sustain his life and was unemployed.

Perceive Musariwa (20) was not asked to plead to the charge of attempted murder when she appeared before Filabusi resident magistrate Mzingaye Moyo on Friday. The magistrate remanded her in custody to a further date to appear before Gwanda Provincial magistrate for trial.

She was advised to apply to the High Court for bail.

Prosecutor Smart Tafireyi told the court that on November 24 this year at 9pm Musariwa went to the Washington Co-operative garden, at Sidzibe in Filabusi with her child. She then threw the naked baby into a pit latrine with the intention to kill him since she could not fend for him, before she went back home unnoticed.

Horror As Mother Dumps Own Baby In Pit Latrine

The child was discovered by other villagers who went to the garden the following day and they heard him crying in the pit latrine. With the assistance of the neighborhood watch committee members, they jointly retrieved the baby who had human waste all over his body.

Further investigations were made and Musariwa was interrogated since she was the only person in the village who had given birth recently. It was later discovered that she was no longer having the child and she could not explain the child’s whereabouts thus leading to her arrest.
Source: Online