Lobby group angry over child abuser’s lenient sentence

Women’s Comfort Corner Foundation (WCCF) director Rita Marque-Mbatha has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa, seeking his intervention in a matter in which a Chitungwiza woman, who scalded a six-year-old girl with hot water causing her first degree burns, was sentenced to 210 hours of community service despite the gravity of the injuries inflicted on the victim.

WCCF raised the issue after Pamela Chipile was sentenced to perform 210 hours community service by a Chitungwiza magistrate following her conviction on charges of physical abuse and negligently causing serious bodily harm.

Chipile scalded the minor following a verbal showdown with the girl’s mother.

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