39-year-old Zimbabwean woman, Annie Mpariwa 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 toddler. 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.
I
was shocked. I nearly fainted,” she said, adding that her breasts were
leaking milk yet she was not a nursing mother or pregnant.
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