A 12 –year- old girl of Chinsali District in Muchinga Province has been assaulted and burnt with a hot pressing iron by her aunt.
The incident happened on Monday around 18:00 hours at Skills Compound as the minor was reported to have been allegedly beaten with a wooden stick and burnt with an electrical pressing iron.
Muchinga Police Commissioner Auxensio Daka who confirmed the development to ZANIS in Chinsali today said the matter was only reported yesterday by members of the public who dragged the victim to police after noticing the bruises and burns on her back.
Mr. Daka said that the girl was allegedly accused of having stolen some money from her aunt’s bedroom.
Mr Daka said the girl sustained severe burns and bruises on her back and left leg and complained of chest pains.
The Police Commissioner said police have since arrested the the aunt identified as Stance Mubita of the same address and will appear in court soon.
But some women can be cruel.
But how is she related to this aunt?
Ninshi there’s no load shedding there?
Iwe Nubian taumfwa ayi. Kwati lyashi ili suma. You’ve really made my day.
@ indigo, lol,an aunt is a very specific & straight forward relationship that one ought to decipher. Nevertheless, what a shameful way of trying to discipline one’s relation…this witch should never see the next decade outside the confines of a rehab facility!
Why troubling the innocent soul.God will punish her severely. For the neighbours to report it means the woman is cruel.The are people we need to be staying in Chimbokaila.Charge her with a charge that will see her for not less than 3 yrs in prison
ba kaddaffi,
I was wondering the same thing Indigo is wondering. If the girl is the woman’s sister’s daughter, the aunt-niece relationship tends to be warmer and cordial. But if the girl is the niece of the woman’s husband then she is still a niece but no blood relation. That’s when sh!t like iron burning is likely to happen. In any case I hope the girl gets help as well as justice. No crime by a 12 year old deserves such punishment.
You are very right! Most likely this child is related to the husband biologically. This kind of woman is wicked and deserves prison. Even if the kid stole money, the girl should have been taken to the police who would have threatened the kid and she would have revealed where the money was. After this, you go to social services and seek counselling services for the girl and she would have reformed.
In her ignorance this owman thought this will be a deterrent to the thieving behaviour of the girl, but that is excessive punishment, inhuma, cruel and abominable!
It is also illegal to treat children inhumanely. She will definately end up in prison and she will learn to respect children’s rights and may even lose her marriage.
Nubian wansekesha. On a serious note though, this woman should rot in jail.
That woman is evil,how can she act in that way.Hope she will be put behind bars.