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For Killing Own Baby, Kabulonga Girls 19yr Old Jailed For 1 year
A NINENTEEN-YEAR-OLD pupil at Kabulonga Girls Secondary School in Lusaka who killed her newly-born baby has been slapped with a one-year jail sentence by a Lusaka High Court.
The sentence has, however, been suspended for one year.
High Court Judge Mwila Chitabo urged school-going children to desist
from engaging in early sexual encounters which could land them into
trouble and affect their education.
The girl was charged with infanticide after she killed her baby by throwing it in Ngwerere Stream in Lusaka.
She had wrapped her baby in a black plastic bag a few minutes after giving birth and asked her friends whom she was staying with to go and throw it in the stream on January 25, this year.
Mr Justice Chitabo in passing sentence, said children were a gift
from God and that the fate of any baby lay in the hands of the mother
who should be ready to take care of them and not to suffocate them to
death.
‘‘This offence is serious, other people do not have this gift which
they desire. You are only 19 and I will exercise lenience on you so
that you can go and reform as well as finish your education.
“ I hope you have learnt serious lessons from this action, I sentence you to
one year simple imprisonment but suspended for another year,’’ Mr
Justice Chitabo said.
In mitigation, the girl said she was young, a pupil and first offender
who deserved to be forgiven.
She said she wanted to complete her education so that she could be
a responsible citizen.
Posted by
muntu
June 15, 2014 at 10:14 am
Murder = 1 year. Defiled = 18 year. Judge Mwila
da silva
June 15, 2014 at 10:54 am
This judgement is nonsesical
Pioneer
June 15, 2014 at 11:18 am
This sentence cannot deter would be offenders. It is so petty as the offence committed was grave.
Shaka Zulu
June 15, 2014 at 12:07 pm
Zambian Justice is a same. It favours women. If some ka loose girl accusses you of rape you get 18 yrs then for murder this woman gets only 1 yr.
TRUETH
June 15, 2014 at 1:06 pm
The judge herself is an agent of the devil. How can you pass such a sentence? Murder to 1 year? GOD help us.
kim
June 15, 2014 at 1:14 pm
Such judgements should surely be reviewed. There is corruption involved in many such. Who do some of these so called ‘learned ‘ judges think they are?? Uku kutupa and needs correction. Unless the shameless Judge is a Hule too. But on whose behalf does she dispense ‘Justice’ ???
DIVA
June 16, 2014 at 9:45 am
The Judge is actually male.
Acumen
June 15, 2014 at 2:33 pm
Awe ine chilankalipa umuntu ale bomfya Imbwa ukutomba our young girls they let him free because he is white elyo uwesu aumfwisheko bwino aka mwaiche bam ulama 18 years. Shame on Dpp.
Umuntungwa
June 15, 2014 at 6:47 pm
THis is just stooooooooooooooopid!!!! Life is sacrosanct and all littlke girls need to be taught this
Umuntungwa
June 15, 2014 at 6:48 pm
One year for killing a life? And Suspended? Is this law?
Umuntungwa
June 15, 2014 at 6:49 pm
What kind of parents is this judge creating for the future? The judge should be suspended
Umuntungwa
June 15, 2014 at 6:51 pm
A baby is a life. Chitabo is a life. Sata is a life. Noone should kill other humans. Abash these useless judges!
josphat
June 15, 2014 at 7:10 pm
Ba judge how many times have u. terminated?olonalufyanya teti. njingile mu court yenu.befo nika libe kuchimwa.nikakula nemwine olo naikakila nkunse
chansa
June 15, 2014 at 8:26 pm
Whaaaaat?
BIG PM
June 15, 2014 at 9:53 pm
Not fair
toka kari
June 16, 2014 at 1:20 am
Zambian judgers you wonder the kind of judging, this was purely a murder case. What is the difference with one who gets a gun and shot a person. I suppose this girl is somehow related to this judge. If someone steals a chicken, he is given 4 years sentence, ati to teach him a lesson. This girl is not going to learn anything, she will do it again
toka kari
June 16, 2014 at 1:32 am
This is why I do not agree with the judgement that was mated on the musician, nalaba neshina lyakwe. The girl slept with this musician with her full consent but the guy is give 20/25 years. The girl commits first degree murder and she has accepted, she is given one year.
Where are these women who talk alot about this issues. Their own kind has committed murder, they are quiet.
Defiling 30 years with hardest labour in zambia, murder 1 year simple imprisonment suspended for one
Chief of Grief
June 16, 2014 at 9:26 am
How i wish i knew this ka kabulonga ***** so that i too can pock her and deposite my seed and no deleting for me,MAKAKA.
Trixy
June 16, 2014 at 9:43 am
Very unfair indeed- either the girl promised the judge sex or something…In all fairness, General Kanene must be released henceforth!!
Kasman
June 16, 2014 at 9:49 am
“In mitigation, the girl said she was young, a pupil and first offender who deserved to be forgiven”.
The girl is not even sorry for what she did!
POOR LIFE
June 16, 2014 at 10:04 am
This is not justice we know please. Release kanene because the man didn’t kill anyone but the lady killed someone
Tail Mbeba
June 16, 2014 at 10:25 am
What a bumpy settling in your new appointment my learned colleague, please consult widely within the fraternity before you embarrass yourself.
ROMASAIDO AND KEIDO
June 16, 2014 at 4:24 pm
Ba judge, Was Kanene a second offender or first?
“U limbwa Judge”
June 16, 2014 at 9:54 pm
I wonder what kind of a judge is this idiooot, this country is very much corrupt with insane idiots so called judges. Imbwa ya muntu uyu judge hw come! Murder can be one year? swine.