A 56-YEAR-OLD woman, who risks being jailed for at least five years for allegedly assaulting her seven-year-old grandson, has admitted hitting the minor with a cooking stick.
Fanny Longwe, a credit controller, told Lusaka magistrate Mutinta Mwenya that she hit the child on the arms with the cooking stick, to “control him” when she found the minor playing with his excreta.
“I was just trying to control the boy,” Longwe said.
She is charged with assault on a child, which attracts a minimum mandatory five-year jail term for anyone found guilty.
Ms Longwe is alleged to have assaulted the boy, whom we shall call Jay because of the nature of the case, on November 4, 2024.
-Zambia Daily Mail