Police in Chama district of Muchinga province have arrested two people of the same village for allegedly killing a 17 –year-old pregnant woman identified as Lucy Zimba.
The two suspects are alleged to have killed a pregnant woman by
stabbing her to death with a knife and removed a live baby boy from
her womb in a rare incident that has stunned the entire district.
The Baby boy was given to Esther Nkhata, 48, a house wife who has been struggling to have a child by the Herbalist Matthews Nkhata, 40 of Mutayachalo Village whom she engaged to assist her conceive.
Muchinga Province Deputy Police Commissioner Chilije Nyirenda
confirmed the incident to the Zambia News and Information Services
(ZANIS) in Chinsali.
Mr. Nyirenda says police after thorough investigations on Sunday
around 07:00 hours discovered the body of the deceased which was found about 5 kilometres away from the Boma in the hills in a de-composited state.
It is alleged that Esther had been having problems with her husband for failing to conceive and decided to consult a traditional healer so that she can bore a child.
Esther has narrated that the herbalist told her to find a pregnant woman who is about to deliver and take her to him if only her problem of not having a child could come to an end.
Esther went to Chama Community District Hospital and managed to convince Lucy Zimba that she will help her to deliver outside hospital.
Zimba landed in the hands of the traditional healer where she was
later killed using a knife and a live baby boy removed from her womb and given to Esther.
Lucy Zimba went missing on July 24 2013 around 13:00hrs.
Mr. Nyirenda has further added that the deceased was admitted at Chama Community District Hospital awaiting delivery before she met her fate.
The mutilated body of Lucy has since been buried and suspects are remanded in custody.
brains
August 6, 2013 at 10:33 am
Shocking!!
isaac
August 6, 2013 at 10:34 am
In human!!!
bigbodybuilder
August 6, 2013 at 10:38 am
Cage these cruel mada fackers!
Chongololo
August 6, 2013 at 11:05 am
Witch Doctor
Please ladies if you want a child just adopt there are a lot of children in distress.
muzekezeke
August 6, 2013 at 11:24 am
kubalasafye ama knife nabo.
julam
August 6, 2013 at 12:20 pm
Extremely Barbaric. Surely ba Esther how can you agree to such terms. Indeed why not just adopt?
PRIMA FACIE
August 6, 2013 at 12:36 pm
Be prepared to meet the wrath of the law.thereafter
judgement day is coming your way i guess you know where you are going to find yourself on that day and for the deceased there was part of negligence from her relatives.where were they whnen she was beign whisked away?this to me raises more questions than answers.
MUSHOTA
August 6, 2013 at 12:44 pm
….incident that has stunned the entire district.So other districts are happy hey?
margaritar
August 6, 2013 at 1:05 pm
ichalo chabipa bane….let them rot in jail..
ben
August 6, 2013 at 2:08 pm
Sum People are wicked
MUKWESU
August 6, 2013 at 2:24 pm
Esther you are wicked, how can you agree to do such
a thing? killing your fellow person and get a child.shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for you esther.
Alhaja Adetola Adepoju
August 6, 2013 at 2:26 pm
Very sad indeed ba kall lwe must be not only be caged by hanged by their balls until pronounced dead.The woman also be hanged from the chin-your with tree inserted in the anal.
fyefye
August 6, 2013 at 2:40 pm
Esther kolwekombwa chin your why not adopt ne chilume chobe caba he tall lay limbi ichapeswa no ku peswa but all in all you both idiots.
joe savage
August 6, 2013 at 2:53 pm
ati……..Christian Nation……..tsk tsk..
Tusheni
August 6, 2013 at 2:56 pm
Police and courts are corrupt. You will hear the judgement turning into manslaughter. Kwena mwalisebana. When u kill with intent, u must as well be hanged. They give first class murder to killing by dangerous driving. Ifyabupuba! Why do u deny Lucy’s family justice?
shocking police attack unarmedwoman
August 6, 2013 at 4:58 pm
ayoba
August 6, 2013 at 6:07 pm
One wonders how much this witchdoctor was paid for him to resort to such an evil act. This is only the iceberg of the rot of humanity this contemporary world. Poor young lady, kufela pachako really! M.H.S.R.I.P.
try
August 6, 2013 at 8:31 pm
Iyee!weired indeed
Denkete
August 6, 2013 at 10:09 pm
Mawe Oyu ngu Satani!!
banakulu chansa
August 7, 2013 at 2:17 pm
YOU WITCH DOCTOR YOU ARE VERY WEIRD AND SELFISH ESPECIALLY THAT GOOD FOR NOTHING ESTHER OF YOUR. JUST HAVING THE GUTS OF KILLING AND GETTING A BABY WHO DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU. WHY SHOULD SOMEONE SUFFER YOUR USELESS BARREN IS IT HER PROBLEM THAT YOUR UNCLEANED WOMB COULD NOT BEAR A CHILD. YOU WILL ROT IN HELL.
PV
August 7, 2013 at 5:08 pm
I thought this was from a Nigerian horror movie or worse still form Nigeria or some far away country, but NO it is in Zambia! Slowly many Zambians are losing respect for human life, there is something very wrong in this country. Even the ‘Arabs’ that we condemn as being very cruel have more respect for human life, WHAT A SO CALLED CHRISTIAN NATION!!
MWACHINDALU
August 7, 2013 at 9:46 pm
This is the work of Maiko Sata and Estoon Lungu
nana
August 8, 2013 at 11:34 am
sad
MUTOTATOTA ENDA NE FUNDA
August 9, 2013 at 12:41 am
SHE DESERVES IT.UKUTEMWA UKUSALANGANYA AMOLU EVEN WEN THEY ARE YOUNG. DESPERARATION FOR WAT TO CLOTHE THE BABY, FEED THE BABY, GIVEN THE HIGH POVERTY LEVELS IN OUR VILLAGES LED TO THIS.ELO NOTWAKUMUSHI NATO TWALITEMWA LIMA.LET HER ROT IN HELL. FORNICATION IS A SIN.