This 22 year old woman who hails from Ndlovu village, about 30km from Victoria Falls, has been arrested by Police for beheading her eight-month-old daughter before attempting to take her own life. The Officer Commanding Victoria Falls, Chief Superintendent Jairos Chiwona, confirmed the nerve shattering incident and said they had in their custody one Louislonh Gurajena Siziba for murdering her child Nomawethu Ncube.
The Superintendent said the filicide occurred last Tuesday at number BH 28 – the suspect’s parents’ homestead. Chiwona said an 11-year-old girl rushed to inform her grandmother who was attending a meeting in the village after she overheard the mother saying she wanted to kill the baby “as she could not take it anymore”. "The grandmother, who was accompanied by a village vigilante and some neighbours, were a little too late as Siziba had already cut off her baby’s head and was sitting dumbfounded next to the lifeless body with the murder knife in full glare.
Information gathered from the family members indicates that the woman and her boyfriend, the father’s baby, were having problems over the paternity of the baby. The boyfriend is currently working and living in South Africa. When she became pregnant last year, the woman’s parents asked her to move in with them to their rural home from her Victoria Falls town base.
"We can confirm that we are holding a female adult in connection with the murder of her child. Preliminary investigations show that the woman could have been frustrated but investigations are progressing to get more details,” Chief Supt Chiwona said.
The whole neigbhourhood was shocked by the incident and some of the folks suggested that perhaps it was the work of evil spirits. “We do not know why she decided to kill the baby and wanted to kill herself. She could have been frustrated over maintenance of the child because the boyfriend abandoned her and went to South Africa. “He never came back until recently when we heard that he sent some groceries and promised to come,” said a neighbour. Another villager said Siziba had been withdrawn lately.
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