A Zimbabwean woman, 39-
year-old Annie Mpariwa who
breastfed a neighbour’s baby
without her consent faces a
possible two-year sentence for
deliberately infecting another
person with HIV after she
tested positive.The case was
deferred to October 24 to allow
a second HIV test to be
performed on the toddler. The
child’s initial results were
negative. Mpariwa 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.
She alleged that her neighbour
snatched the child while she
was playing outside and hid her
in her room. After searching for
the child for quite some time,
she went and knocked on
Mpariwa’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 bosoms were leaking milk
yet she was not a nursing
mother or pregnant.
This is really sad. If you were
the parents of this child what
would you do?
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