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SAD: Serenje Woman Eats Own Baby
By CAROLINE KALOMBE
AN UNUSUAL craving for meat has driven a 29-year-old woman of Serenje to kill and eat her two-month-old baby boy.
Central Province deputy commissioner of police Edwin Bwanga who confirmed the incident yesterday identified the woman, who has been arrested, as Stella Mwelwa of Chief Kabamba’s area.
Mr Bwanga said in an interview from Ms Kabwe yesterday that Mwelwa beheaded her baby a week ago, cut it into pieces and cooked and ate the flesh.
She is believed to be mentally disturbed, according to some people in her community.
“The woman slaughtered her baby, cut it up and buried the intestines behind her house. She cooked some body parts and ate them,” Mr Bwanga said.
He said Mwelwa is in police custody after being apprehended by villagers.
He said Mwelwa told villagers who apprehended her that she buried the baby’s intestines in her backyard.
Mr Bwanga said Mwelwa also confessed that she ate her baby’s flesh because she cannot go out to hunt as it is against the law and that the Zambia Wildlife Authority wardens would have caught up with her.
“She said she cannot go in the bush to hunt animals and she wanted to eat meat so badly that she ate her child,” he said.
He said the villagers told the police that Mwelwa exhibits violent behaviour and is believed to have a mental problem.
Meanwhile, a man of Chief Kabamba’s area in Serenje has died after taking a poisonous local beer.
Mr Bwanga said the man has been identified as Frank Ng’uni.
He said Mr Ng’uni was invited for a drink by his friend around 21:00 hours on Saturday.
Mr Bwanga said Mr Ng’uni took the poisoned beer and he was rushed to the hospital after complaining of stomach pain.
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KUWE
June 17, 2013 at 7:17 am
ayaye,zedians,ndepapakofye ine.
Wanu Ngwee
June 17, 2013 at 12:30 pm
ARE HER NEIGHBOURS CHINESE?
Doer
June 18, 2013 at 8:00 am
mentally ill, the government should put up measures like to take away babies of such people and imprison those who impregnate them!
DEEEE
June 17, 2013 at 7:29 am
These are the last days th coming of the son of GOD is near.
KUWE
June 17, 2013 at 7:36 am
iwe God has got no son,mwebantu kanshi whats your problem ayi?
Yambayamba
June 17, 2013 at 12:15 pm
Cannibalism is an old story, and God has not come to redeem us yet!!!
Bana Patience
June 17, 2013 at 1:44 pm
Very True
FISH
June 17, 2013 at 7:34 am
nkupela yachalo
Kwacha-Rebased Lungu
June 17, 2013 at 8:22 am
Chainama & Mukobeko Maximum Prison material. Social misfit. ******, we have lost a child to look after as when we age.
Nsamwa
June 17, 2013 at 8:24 am
end times indeed, repent or perish
man
June 17, 2013 at 8:28 am
That woman in the picture, is she the one who eat the child?
Anyway, its shocking but I think she is a lunatic because a normal person can’t do this.
Slowthinkers
June 17, 2013 at 10:25 am
You are a very dull Zambian. pull you head out of your arsehole!
Mundia M
June 17, 2013 at 3:46 pm
The mouth of that woman in picture has blood. The woman in Serenje cooked the body parts of the baby she ate.
The picture is Tumfweko thinking out of there arses, just like you!
mafo
June 17, 2013 at 8:51 am
yes, the devil at work, trying to test the christian nation, but he will not succeed, evil spirits at work, devil leave us in peace, in the name of JESUS CHRIST, WE WILL CLING TO THE LORD, SATANA TWAKUKANA IWE, LEAVE OUR NATION FREE *****, WE BATH IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS EVERYDAY, NO MATTER WHAT, WE WILL BE SINGING HIS SONGS, WHATEVER SITUATION, WE WILL ALWAYS MENTION HIS NAME. TAKE YOUR BLESSINGS OF DOING EVIL AWAY FROM THIS COUNTRY.
Bana Patience
June 17, 2013 at 1:47 pm
Only the Devil is behind this. Pray on children of God!
Bull
June 17, 2013 at 9:10 am
She needs help, it is Psychiatric condition.
frozen yoghurt
June 17, 2013 at 9:51 am
fine young cannibles
Basrah
June 17, 2013 at 10:03 am
too bad..
Tamara Mwansa
June 17, 2013 at 10:39 am
Women who kill,its true she’s sick, because a norma person can’t do such a thing,in isolation please before she kills more people. Eish God have mercy!!
Cumbu Munshololwa SC
June 17, 2013 at 10:43 am
Why didnt she eat the man who …………..for her to have a baby. Just asking
Obstetrician
June 17, 2013 at 11:11 am
This woman is not evil please do not call her names, this is a clear case of postnatal depression that affects women after childbirth, it affects some women regardless of colour and race, child birth can be traumatic for women and can affect the mental state of a mother. As a midwife and mother am well placed and trained to look out for women who are at risk of developing postnatal depression and refer them to mental health specialists to ore ent such calamities as the one in serenje . Please this woman needs psychiatric assessment not police. Unfortunately in Zambia people do not have a clue or knowledge about this illness. People just accept a new mother to cope with her baby. We need mental health education for families and professional support for women who may be at risk of developing post natal depression. Women may become tearful a few days after birth which can be normal but watch out for them when they become anxcious , not bonding well with baby , these are some of the signs of PND quick referal to the hospital can prevent deaths.
Mundia M
June 17, 2013 at 4:05 pm
You are very right! This is a severe case of PND. There is need to have this woman undergo psychiatric evaluation immediately.
Doctors, please inform ZP to bring this woman before mental health medical practitioners. There is also need to start training our society to recognise such complicated mental disorders.
Loose Canon
June 17, 2013 at 11:13 am
PF regime
wabo
June 17, 2013 at 11:25 am
nabaume bene how can you….with such a woman?by the way where is the father to that inocent baby?cage him as well
zondym
June 17, 2013 at 12:15 pm
is it february zambians
the president'e'
June 17, 2013 at 12:51 pm
what a horror story, its sad
bene chishi
June 17, 2013 at 1:33 pm
sad story indeed,signs of da end of tym
bene chishi
June 17, 2013 at 1:33 pm
sad story indeed,signs of da end of tym
JJ AYU
June 17, 2013 at 1:39 pm
SI HORROR MOVIE CHABE IYE?
Chief Kaponya
June 17, 2013 at 2:03 pm
But this is NOT the true picture of her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alfred
June 17, 2013 at 3:01 pm
Bananvela ati “walya kake aliye mulandu” beve badya mwana… Mad woman.
SFZ ONE SHAKA
June 17, 2013 at 4:01 pm
I told you Zambians that under Sata tizadyana-This is the begining of more shock,people have no food baaba!
Alvin Chipmunk
June 17, 2013 at 4:48 pm
If her neighbors knew forthwith that she was experiencing mental problems why didn’t they arrange to get the baby from her immediately she gave birth and arrange for foster care? If she has a mental problem, am sure the man responsible for her pregnancy could have just raped her and she doesn’t even know him. We have lost an innocent soul because of negligence and selfishness. If it is established that she has a mental problem, she will have no case to answer but taken to a psychiatric hospital.
Jimmie tall
June 17, 2013 at 7:56 pm
Where is dis world going God help us.
bahs
June 17, 2013 at 8:55 pm
elyo yakosa
DIP STICK
June 17, 2013 at 11:42 pm
AND, WHERE IS THE FATHER TO THE BABY? SHE COULD HAVE EATEN HIM SOMETIME BACK AS WELL. SHE IS A DEMON CRAVING FOR HUMAN FLESH
1200
June 18, 2013 at 12:19 am
Stella Mwelwa?????
May be she was used to eat monkeys
hussen daka
June 18, 2013 at 2:18 am
THESE ARE SIGNS OF POOR HEALTH STANDS IN ZAMBIA PEOPLE NEW HER THAT SHE HAS SOME MENTAL ISSUES WHY DID THE GOV LEAVE HER WITH THE BABY WHO IS LEADER OF THESE NATION? AND BY THE WAY WHERE IS ZAMBIA AM HEARING IT FOR THE FIRST TIME.
gud wife
June 18, 2013 at 8:27 am
Wat a vampire’ shud hv killed a dog ad ate it as meat’sh shud perish in hell wit hard labor
mulubwa
June 18, 2013 at 11:20 am
Theriz nothing like end times,she is just mentally ill or evil possessed.
SHI DODO
June 20, 2013 at 12:38 pm
WOMAN WHEN DID YOU BECOME VAMPIRES AND IT’S ONLY WOMAN THAT ARE MUCH FULFILLING THE END TIMES PROPHENCY