Gweru woman kills baby, threatens to kill two mino...

Gweru woman kills baby, threatens to kill two minor witnesses

Zim Now Writer

A Gweru woman has been arraigned before the courts after she had killed her newly-born baby.

Circumstances are that she beat the newly-born baby with a cooking stick while two minors watched and she threatened to kill them also.

Susan Manikai has since been arrested after the police received a tip-off from an anonymous caller.

Acting Midlands provincial spokesperson Assistant Inspector Farai Ngawagare confirmed that the police have since arrested Manikai.

“Sometime in April 2022, the suspect came to her rural home from Harare while she was pregnant. On the night in question, she was at home together with two minors when she felt labour pains,” said Asst Insp Ngawagare.

“She reportedly ordered the two minors to go into the other room before she delivered a baby.

“Whilst in the kitchen, the suspect gave birth to a baby and as the baby cried, she struck the baby with a cooking stick twice on the head and the baby died instantly,” said Asst Insp Ngwagare.

“Manikai wrapped the body in a piece of cloth and placed it in a mortar in the kitchen."

The following day, the suspect went into a nearby bush where she buried the baby. All this happened while the two minors watched and Manikai allegedly threatened to kill them as well if they told anyone

When police received the tip-off, they attended the scene where they discovered the cloth used to wrap the baby, leading to the arrest of the suspect