Police in Chinsali district of Muchinga Province have retrieved a day- old baby from a pit latrine after its 15-year-old mother abandoned it for dead.
Muchinga Province Deputy Police Commissioner, Bonny Kapeso, confirmed the incident in an interview in Chinsali today.
Mr Kapeso said police in the district retrieved the infant from a pit latrine at Chinsali Girls’ Secondary School on Sunday morning.He added that the police found the infant in deep water in the toilet.
The Deputy Police Commissioner said that the infant was dumped in a pit latrine by its mother after delivery, saying the baby was a full term baby.
Mr Kapeso said that the mother, who is a Grade Eight pupil, has since been charged with infanticide and will appear in court soon today Wednesday October 8, 2014.
Guess the talk by First Lady Kaseba Sata didn’t help much.The girl must have been terrified and had no support structure.There should be a place where such girls can go to for help in desperate times. Hope the court also calls the father of the baby.It takes two to tango.
What is wrong with that
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oh no, it really helped. The results will be seen
Abaiche aba baleyamba sana bwangu ukunyengwa nokunyenga. Ifwe ninshi twalekula tefyo chaleba. Chabulanda sana.
S.exy bembas at it again. LOL
Fyatampile akale.
Ilyashi lyakosa,limbi niba teacher kaletina ukulanda
16years is the legal age of consent therefore under 16 is staturory rape. Bring the man who impregnanted her. They have to find out his age and then take it from there.
Have you ever watched the program on TV “”Ï did not know I was pregnant”” I suspect these are some of the cases its a pity it was a pit latrine. More over in Zambia they never accept such as thing that you did not know you were up.
The place where i started my Grade one at Mishishi primary……..sorry young lady but nice things are coming your way
There is a syndrome called POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION. Our forebears recognized its effect on the mother and provided social support system. When a woman is about to deliver, the best place for her to be is around people she trusts. She may not know this but THEY must know.
Makolo athu anali ocenjela. Ndiye camene ninankalila odabwa kupeza pic ya mzimayi in a partial birth situation and women are watching while journalists are having a field day. Ati civilization, kuti?
Was the retrieved baby alive or was it the body of the baby? Left for dead could mean that the baby survived the deep waters, right? But what about the infanticide charge? LT please have mercy…
I was just thinking the same thing, trying to figure out if the baby died or survived. The reporting is rather poor. Although, since they charged her with infanticide, I think the baby did not survive.
That said, it’s a very sad situation. It’s terrible that things like this happen in our society.
Nothing to laugh about, imagine this 15 year old child frightened about what has happened and not knowing what to do. I am not saying what she done was right, it would have been better if she left the child at someone s door step; sad case.
Thank God the baby is alive. I can adopt the baby if noone wants him/her
….surely half baked story….what happened to the baby…??…we just have to assume the baby died because of the charge slapped on the mother…??….how did they discover the baby ..? was it crying or what..??…who reported/called the police…??…how did they know who the mother was…??..who is responsible for the pregnancy..??….why police doing the retrieving and not fire brigade…??
it looks like its just a worst of resources advertising for safe sex…abstinence what have you…..boys and girls always think the adverts are for other persons and not them….
Sad….
Ba Lusaka times please learn how to cover the news or else shut-up
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