Zim Maid Who Put The Baby In The Drawer Jailed 22 Years

HARARE – A Zimbabwean nanny was jailed for 22 years for the murder of a 10-month-old baby she stuffed into a drawer “for crying too much” before she settled down to watch TV.
Violet Moyo, 22, was sentenced on Thursday after being found guilty of murder over what the judge said was a “very cruel and brutal” death, the state-run Chronicle newspaper reported.
Moyo, from Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo, was left in charge of the baby boy while the parents went to work and had fed him and put him to bed.
But the child woke up after five hours and started crying, the prosecution said.
Moyo tried in vain to calm the boy and in frustration she wrapped him in a blanket, stuffed him in a linen drawer and shut it while she went to watch a film on television.
She went to check on the child after three hours and found he was dead, the newspaper said on Friday.
High court judge Lawrence Kamocha described the baby’s death as “very cruel and brutal”.
“Despite the baby’s distressed cry, you chose to ignore him and went to the lounge to watch a television movie, which is quite clear you wanted to kill him,” Kamocha said.AFP

Posted by Kunda on March 2, 2015. Filed under CRIME. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to Zim Maid Who Put The Baby In The Drawer Jailed 22 Years

Chief of Grief

March 2, 2015 at 8:07 am

Nice one!!
poly

March 2, 2015 at 8:42 am

She can only be a migrant from Sinazeze.
joel

March 4, 2015 at 2:50 pm

WERE IS THIS WORLD GOING TO… THIS WOMAN NEEDS TO BE SENTENCED LIFE IMPRISONMENT MWEE MA MA
New Educated Zambia

March 4, 2015 at 2:54 pm

This is not a surprising trend in a country like zimbabwe. I will not be surprised if this happens in zambia as well. There has been an increased trend of such abuses on the african continent. The poor leadership and economic situations in many countries such as Zambia leads to such behaviour. Young girls with no skills of being a nanny are forced to work with kids just to make something for food. Due to the bad economy these people are paid peanuts. Therefore when they commit such crimes it does not surprise me. PLease vote the UPND to avoid such cases becoming widespread in zambia