Baptism deaths: Prophetess, accomplice jailed 5 years each

SELF-STYLED Chikomba prophetess Maud Dzvuke and her accomplice Jane Ruvinga have been sentenced to a five-year jail term each for drowning six children during an ill-fated baptism ceremony conducted in Mutorahuku stream under headman Mutengwa’s area in June this year.

The two were sentenced last week after regional magistrate Fadzai Mtombeni found them guilty of culpable homicide.

The court heard that Dzvuke, a self -styled prophet of the Johane Masowe Yechishanu Apostolic sect, was leading the baptism event when tragedy struck.

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