Mberengwa woman throws baby down mine shaft

In a horrible development, a 35-year-old woman from Mberengewa threw her baby down a mine shaft.

When she was arrested for the crime, Ebber Mudadisi of Damsite Village under Chief Bvute pleaded poverty claiming that due to the harsh economic situation in the country, she had nothing to feed the baby with.

263Bulletin has learned from the Masvingo Mirror that Mudadasi was charged with infanticide and appeared before Mberengwa magistrate Evia Matura last week. When asked to plead, she not waste the court’s time and readily pleaded guilty.

In mitigation, she told the court that she was a struggling single mother who had other children to take care of who she was struggling to feed and clothe. She claimed that she had fallen pregnant by mistake and that the man responsible for the pregnancy had refused to take responsibility to help her look after the baby.

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