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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