Police in Kafue are holding a 32 year old woman of Kalundu for dumping a baby in a pit latrine after delivering it.
Both police and health authorities at Kafue District Hospital have confirmed the incident to ZANIS today which happened on Wednesday.
According to police, the woman Namachindu Hamalambo gave birth to a baby boy and then dumped him in a pit latrine before running way.
The baby was only discovered by neighbors who heard the cries of a baby from the pit latrine.
Police sources said the baby was then rescued by a combined team of officers and neighbors, and then rushed to Kafue District Hospital.
The woman was only apprehended after members of the same community tipped the police that she had runway and was hiding in a nearby village in Lukolongo area.
The woman is admitted at Kafue District Hospital for medical examinations, and police have since charged her with attempted infanticide and is soon expected to appear in court.
The baby has since been repatriated by the Department of Social Welfare to an orphanage in Lusaka.
[ ZANIS ]
Some pple u don’t appreciate Gods gifts.Don’t you know that many people are surfering to just have a child?Some are even chased away by there husbands because they can’t bare a child?
This is old news.
Where is the father? I hope te wakupula fye mu night club. People must learn to take responsibility. This is the result of pleassures you enjoyed alone, that no even those legally married enjoy all the time, let alone when the husband has strength. Let her go kumukobeko so that she gets shagged from behind & mouth by sex hungry fellow prisoners.