Suspended Supersport United player Kudakwashe Mahachi has denied allegations that he scalded his four-year-old son Diego with boiling water.
Speaking through his lawyer Nkosiyabo Sibanda of Tanaka Law Chambers, Mahachi revealed that his ex-wife Maritha Ndlovu and the authorities at Bulawayo’s Mpilo Central Hospital barred him from seeing his son.
The Zimbabwe Warriors player has been hogging the limelight for all the wrong reasons after gruesome pictures of his son made rounds on social media.
Mahachi is alleged to have scalded the four-year-old boy with boiling water in South Africa before smuggling the minor to Zimbabwe.
Diego suffered extensive injuries, which resulted in his right foot being amputated after he failed to get medical attention on time.
Denying the allegations, Mahachi’s lawyer said:
Our client wishes to advise the public on the allegations that have been levelled against him through various media platforms.
Firstly, our client wishes to indicate that he loves his son and what he has seen circulating on various platforms is unfortunate, and worrisome and it has tormented him as deeply as it exposed his son’s medical condition, which ought to have been private, but has been made public.
On the allegations that our client scalded the minor, he wishes to state that he never did such an act to his only son and the stories that he is responsible are a fabrication, malicious and are designed to tarnish him as a successful international footballer with a desire to end the career of Mahachi.
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Mahachi is said to have engaged two medical practitioners to assess the child but they were barred from examining Diego.
Regarding his son, our client advises that he has tried all efforts to do the fatherly duties towards the minor by providing primary care, medical care and, in this instance, our client engaged two medical doctors, who are specialists in matters of children’s health.
The two medical practitioners were barred from assessing the minor child and to provide further medical health care.
Our client is of the view that there are people who are benefiting from the false narrative that has been sold to the public.
Mahachi was suspended by his club following this saga making noise on social media and various media outlets.
