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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