{"id":5256,"date":"2024-10-22T07:14:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T07:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2024-10-22T07:14:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T07:14:44","slug":"mutare-woman-who-abused-her-11-month-old-baby-pleads-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=5256","title":{"rendered":"Mutare Woman Who Abused Her 11 Month Old Baby Pleads Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Crimes and Courts Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 30-year-old woman from Mutare&#8217;s Chief Zimunya area appeared in court, facing charges under the Children&#8217;s Protection and Adoption Act for assaulting her 11-month-old baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disturbing incident came to light after a video of the assault went viral on social media. The woman allegedly laid her child face down on the floor and hit her multiple times with a stick, instructing her to crawl, and then sent the video to the child&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She pleaded guilty and claimed to have an undisclosed mental disorder during mitigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court has remanded her in custody until October 30, 2024, pending evaluations by two doctors as per the Mental Health Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Chivi South MP Killer Zivhu suggested that poverty and frustration might have driven the woman&#8217;s actions. He expressed that she needs counseling rather than imprisonment and even offered $2,500 to help her start an income-generating project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This case highlights the complexities surrounding mental health, poverty, and child abuse in Zimbabwe. While some argue that the woman&#8217;s actions are inexcusable, others believe that underlying issues need to be addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Case Details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Location: Chief Zimunya area, Mutare<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Charges: Children&#8217;s Protection and Adoption Act<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Incident: Assaulting 11-month-old baby with a stick<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Video Evidence: Sent to child&#8217;s father, went viral on social media<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plea: Guilty, claiming mental disorder<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remand: Until October 30, 2024, pending mental health evaluations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crimes and Courts Correspondent A 30-year-old woman from Mutare&#8217;s Chief Zimunya area appeared in court, facing charges under the Children&#8217;s Protection and Adoption Act for assaulting her 11-month-old baby. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5258,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions\/5258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}