A WOMAN from Gweshanga village in Lupane, Matabeleland North province, has been convicted for breastfeeding her employer’s two-year-old child.
Khaliphile Nyoni (24) appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza on Wednesday this week to answer to a charge of aggravated indecent assault.
She pleaded guilty to the offence of breastfeeding. Nyoni breastfed her employer’s child while the parents were at work.
However, the magistrate quizzed Nyoni on why she breastfed the child when she was not the mother and she shocked the court by claiming that the child would access her breast and suck.
“The child always took my breast and would start sucking. I told the mother and she did nothing about the issue. I used to sleep with the child and he would suck my breast every night, that is how he got used to the deed,” she said.
Shocked, Mabeza asked Nyoni why she let the baby get used sucking her breasts.
The court was told that on December 1, the baby’s father found a picture in Nyoni's cellphone where she was breastfeeding his son.
The matter was reported to the policem leading to her arrest.
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Nyoni was remanded in custody awaiting sentencing.
