A foreign woman smuggler has given birth to a dead baby at District Headquarters Hospital under police custody. A magistrate has instructed the police station concerned to make necessary arrangements for burial of the child in Christian cemetery according to wish of the mother.
Tembo Agness, of Zambia, was apprehended by Anti Narcotics Force, carrying drugs in November 2009. At that time, she was pregnant. Later she was sent to Adiala Jail by the court of law.
On Friday afternoon, she was rushed to DHQ Hospital from jail due to labouring pangs. She was shifted to Gynecology Department where she gave birth to a dead baby.
When jail administration came to know about the delivery, they submitted an application before a sessions judge, who deputed Special Duty Magistrate Syed Nazarat Ali to probe the reasons for the death of the child. Ali went to hospital on Saturday and inquired about the matter from the mother as well as doctors. He submitted his report to the sessions judge that according to gynecologist, the death of the child took place before birth.
Mother Agness wished that her baby be buried according to Christian traditions. Upon this the special magistrate ordered city police station to make necessary arrangements for burial of the child in a graveyard of Christians.
[dailytimes.com]
OMG!!!! Maulesi!!! Maloza!!! Poor baby!!!
Where is this place? Why put up an article without the name of the country bwana LT
@ KK 11, Read the article again, you will find the name of the country in black and white.
women read this news and make good decisions so that you may avoid some of these issues. its good to settle down with a man and be a wife instead of going round doing illegal business.
sad affair ,the woman must be in deep pain.
Oh, my GOD. My tears will continue rolling down my face for that baby who refused to be born in a foreign land and in prison in particular. BUT that baby had a father. Can’t he arrange to bring that body to mother Zambia surely.
# 2, now i believe what these whites during those days they will say to each other that if you want to hide from a black man information, put it in the book.That is why you need to read carefully before you sign up Lol.
Sad indeed to jailed mother and father of the dead baby,RIP.
# 2 pamulomo too much…!!
# 2 The name of the country is just on the article headline please learn to read the whole article before you comment 😮 ! Please women learn from this woman who left home for illegal business abroad. This is really embarrassing that women and even men are being arrested abroad for being in possession of illegal drugs. It is really denting our image as Zambians and the international communities will be really harsh when dealing with us abroad because of such cases. Zambians watch out please!
The baby was deliberately killed by the Pakistan officials. This was done to resolve a problem of either jailing or hanging a woman who has just given birth(What would you do with the baby?). In Middle eastern and South Asian countries as well as China pregnant female prisoners always do have their fetuses aborted or killed at birth. This is definitely what happened in this case.
#10..
I think u are right. These arabs are so useless people I wander why you even give them respect in Zambia. Treat them the same in Zambia. Why killing an innocent child? So silly guys.
And you tu maladies learn to settle with your husbands not being involved in dirty busineses of opening legs any how. We know that she was just used by one arab to traffick the drugs. So sad indeed.
Hope this has nothing to do with a compromised birth canal coz women drug dealers are sophiscated these days ,every organ is now a carrier for drugs…M.H.S.R.I.P.:-?
#10 very right i actually read about it once but cant remember the where could have been on a CNN documentary. i read that there is international law protecting women who just gave birth ( or with infants)from being hanged..
# 2, KK11: The place is Pakistan, very clear on the title.
#11 As long as we compartimentalise people and then tell lies about them we will fail to see how Africa got enslaved. Pakistanis are not arabs
Agness maybe a felon, but I feel we ought to show more sensitivity in our choice of words. Couldn’t we have called her ‘dead baby’ a still-born ?.
#16 I agree with you, honestly you couldnt come up with a more dignified title other than ‘dead baby’.Please you are professional so be sensitive to some issues.Yes, its sad to hear and we hoe the lady will be able to cope in an already difficult situation.its a lesson to be learnt by all, fast money doesnt answer all qustions better go to the village and start cultivating maize than get involved in illegal.So the person she was doing this on behalf is sitted home and dry.Sad indeed!!!!
Yes I see it now. I was using a mobile phone Internet not all words were shown. Anyway thanx.
poor reporting. country is pakistan but whereabouts in pakistan, no mention of city.
guyz i feel for this girl and the loss.however,may she find comfort in the lord as no one knows why she is in that situation.just a thought,what if sombody played her?
The major difference between developed countries and developing countries is the way leadership would react to such incidences. Many are times when a former president of a nation would set-off to unfriendly nations to negotiate the release of their national. For zambia, all they will say is, please ensure that the wishes of the mother are respected. Sad to be Zambian at the moment in time for Agness Tembo. Regardless of the offence, the government would have been there for her, months before the due date; even negotiating her tranfer to serve the sentence in Zambia. Not more than 2 years a Briton was released from some Asian Nation. Call me a cynic, but I see no patriotism from Zambia, as a nation.
I know Zambian Jails could probably be worse-off than where she is, but imagine the pain of being alone, imprisoned, and loosing a child, let alone having no hope of seeing your family! Zambia, akamana ukupomapo nipamabwe, efili nemfumu ukutangala nipabantu! Agness muntu wesu, could those in the ministry of foreign affairs do something about this, please.
I would even suspect the baby’s Father was a Pakistanian. They had to do whatever it takes to save face. If she converted to islam, the sharia law would be applied, that is stoned to death. Remain xtian, she might be spared but not the fetus. She only had those two options. The last paragraph simply sums it up all. No need to emphasize on how and where the fetus would be buried if there was no malice of some sort intended. Gentlemen and ladies, I lay my case. 😕
Poor lady. May God be with her in this time of sorrow. Losing a baby is not easy. M.H.S.R.I.P
Her situation is a wake up call to all of us young people trying to make a living by various means, to be extra careful.
We don’t know the circumstances leading to her being in this situation so let’s not be too judgmental.
Manje mimba yamu 2009 mwana abadwa lelo
Ceekay this story was published in 2010. Look at the note below the header (title) and you’ll see the date and time …..Imprisoned Agness Tembo gives birth to a dead baby in Pakistan
TIME PUBLISHED – Sunday, June 13, 2010, 4:28 am
Ceekay this story was published in 2010. Look at the note below the header (title) and you’ll see the date and time …..Imprisoned Agness Tembo gives birth to a dead baby in Pakistan
TIME PUBLISHED – Sunday, June 13, 2010, 4:28 am
first this Agness Tembo is not zambian, these are people spoiling our passport,she used a fake zambia black old passport . she is a zimbabwean and her real name is Mandy.