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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