Chilenje maid jail£d 5 years for st@bbing employer’s 8-year-old daughter in the face!
A maid of Chilenje Township has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for stabbing her employer’s eight-year-old daughter in the face with a kn!fe.
Bathsheba Phiri, who is in her 20s, was charged with ass@ult on a child, an offence which attracts a minimum mandatory sentence of five years imprisonment, in line with the Children’s Code Act.
Evidence is that on March 31 this year, the accused allegedly ass@ulted the child.
When Bathsheba first appeared before Lusaka magistrate Idah Phiri, she denied the allegation.
During trial yesterday, the court heard that the child was st@bbed with a kn!fe the house-help was suing to cut vegetables.
This was after an attempt by the child to play with Ms Phiri who was uninterested.
-Zambia Daily Mail