A
married woman has killed her little stepdaughter in a brutal manner
before going ahead to insert a vibrator in her private part.
Tendai
Happiness Bwanya is a Zimbabwean woman who killed her six-year-old
stepdaughter before sticking a vibrator in her private part.
The woman has however been jailed for the evil act.
According
to Manica Post, the woman who brutally attacked her six-year-old
stepdaughter with an axe-handle, leaving her for dead before inserting a
vibrator in her privates in a futile attempt to present the minor as a r
ape victim was yesterday (Thursday) sentenced to 23 years imprisonment.
Tendai
Happiness Bwanya (47) was convicted of murder by High Court Judge,
Justice Charles Hungwe. Her brutality resulted in the death of Rumbidzai
Ndoro in August last year. In sentencing her, Justice Hungwe expressed
shock at Bwanya’s heartlessness.
Justice Hungwe said as young as Rumbidzai was, she would not have provoked her stepmother to punish her the way Bwanya did.
Justice Hungwe said: “The
horrendous nature of the wounds that were on the child’s body at the
time of her body speaks volumes of the inhuman treatment and horrors she
went through at your hands while she was still alive.”
Justice
Hungwe said it was people like Bwanya who taint the image of all
step-mothers because of the inhuman treatment she subjected the six-year
old child to.
“It
is a bad case of cruelty, domestic violence as well as child abuse and
it is a wonder that you are actually a mother of a grown up child who is
still alive.
“As
if that was not enough, you went further and crafted a web of lies
which you told your husband, friend, the police and this court thinking
that you will evade your befitting punishment,” said Justice Hungwe.
Justice
Hungwe was referring to Bwanya’s testimony in court that she had seen
an unidentified man leaving her house and that the child had told her
that she had been r*ped.
Justice
Hungwe said if the child had been raped indeed, Bwanya would not have
dissuaded her husband from making a police report and that after he had
left for the police, she should not have kept on cleaning the mess in
the house as cover up of the evidence.
After
being arrested, she escaped lawful custody and asked her friend, Gladys
Nyabereka to go and collect some money, clean clothes and her
travelling documents as well as disperse mourners who had gathered at
her house. Bwanya was arrested for the second time, after being caught
hiding under Nyabereka’s bed.
Mr Jonathan Chingwinyiso prosecuted.
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