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Crazy World:Man Kills Baby For Not Resembling Him
Police in Lusaka have apprehended a couple that is suspected to have strangled its six-day-old baby girl on suspicion that the child did not resemble the father.
Lusaka Province police commissioner Lemmy Kajoba confirmed the arrest of Jackson Mayabi Muyaba, 27 and his wife Lisulo Mwangala 24, both of John Laing compound in Lusaka on Friday.
The couple is in police custody to assist with further investigations to establish who was behind the gruesome murder of the child, as they were counter accusing each other.
Facts were that on June 6, 2014, Mwangala, 24, successfully gave birth to a baby girl at the University Teaching Hospital after which her husband Muyaba took her home.
But on June 10, 2014, Muyaba accused his wife of having committed adultery and claimed that the child did not resemble him as it did not have features that would be related to him.
“This man Muyaba allegedly picked a knife, according to his wife, who he then asked to tell him the truth. They had a heated quarrel and eventually the man picked a bottle and broke it into half and stabbed his wife on the thigh in trying to force her to state the truth on the real father of the baby and to make her admit that she had an affair with another man,” Kajoba said.
Kajoba said Muyaba allegedly continued to stab his wife on the buttocks telling her to kill the child or he would instead kill her if she failed to heed to his instructions.
“After stabbing her, Mwangala, could not let go of her child but her husband beat her badly and grabbed the child. He then allegedly strangled the child to death after leaving his wife injured and in a pool of blood,” Kajoba said.
“He Muyaba then allegedly packed the dead child in its bag for nappies and went and threw the child in Ngwenya Dam in Misisi compound.”
Some people who saw Mwangala pregnant and later on with a baby started wondering as to where the baby had disappeared.
“So police using that information from curious residents picked up the husband to Mwangala who was working at a Take-Away Joint at Makeni Shopping Mall. After questioning him at Embassy Police, he led officers to his house in John Laing where we discovered the wife sick with wounds on her body,” Kajoba said.
“The man Muyaba didn’t even dare take his wife to the hospital for fear of being questioned. So we picked them and brought them to the police and after questioning them, the man revealed yesterday Friday that he had thrown the baby in the dam where the body which had been lying in the dam for almost two weeks was retrieved and a postmortem conducted revealed that the baby died of strangulation.”
The incident, which happened on June 10, 2014, was only reported to the police on Thursday. Kajoba said once the police had thoroughly interrogated the couple, they will formally charge it.
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Crazy world
June 22, 2014 at 4:24 pm
Chimumbwa pala wiso noko ukuwama
mj banda
June 22, 2014 at 5:14 pm
These people are murderers and should be punished
kakolwe
June 22, 2014 at 5:58 pm
1 year simple imprisonment suspended for 2 weeks so that they go back to making a NEW baby that resembles the father.
Tree-top high court of loonies!!
x5
June 22, 2014 at 6:57 pm
Evil man
zambiana
June 22, 2014 at 7:13 pm
for me a man was ok
ama kip kip
June 22, 2014 at 7:57 pm
beter go for a DNA test than killing an innocent child.
dorcas
June 23, 2014 at 6:07 am
most women are not faithful but strongly condemn the action taken by the man.
bazetale
June 23, 2014 at 8:21 am
in as much as the baby didnt resembles the father, it wad nonsensical of imbecile 2kill the innocent child. now it is incumbent upon the law 2 take its course.
Chief of Grief
June 23, 2014 at 9:40 am
Chikala chobe mustanina.We need children & their you ‘re killing them!Cage that busterd….
Kasman
June 23, 2014 at 10:43 am
That action is extreme. Why not just divorce the woman than kill an innocent child. The man is sick!!
Trixy
June 25, 2014 at 2:07 pm
Moreover it is difficult to tell who a baby resembles at that age. Kansi what is happening in the world today? Why have people stopped behaving like normal human beings?