Zimbabwean woman Annie Mpariwa (39 years old) who is HIV positive has been arrested for breastfeeding a neighbour's baby without her consent.The case which is already in court has been set for further hearing on the 24th of October for an HIV test
to be performed on the baby. She was arrested last week on charges
of common nuisance and should the child test positive; the charge will
be raised to “deliberately infecting another person with HIV”. The mother of the 14-month-old baby said seeing her child being breastfed by her neighbour was traumatising.
According to her, the neighbour snatched the child while she was playing outside and hid her in her room. But after searching for the child for quite some time, she went and knocked on Annie’s rented room and got no response. Upon peeping through the window, she saw her breastfeeding the little girl.
The mother of the child said she was shocked and nearly fainted.
According to her, the neighbour snatched the child while she was playing outside and hid her in her room. But after searching for the child for quite some time, she went and knocked on Annie’s rented room and got no response. Upon peeping through the window, she saw her breastfeeding the little girl.
The mother of the child said she was shocked and nearly fainted.
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