HIV-Positive Woman Arrested For Breastfeeding Neighbour’s Baby

A Zimbabwean woman, 39-year-old Annie
Mpariwa who breastfed a neighbour’s baby
without her consent faces a possible two-
year sentence for deliberately infecting
another person with HIV after she tested
positive.The case was deferred to October
24 to allow a second HIV test to be
performed on the toddler. The child’s initial
results were negative. Mpariwa was
arrested last week on charges of common
nuisance and should the child test positive;
the charge will be raised to “deliberately
infecting another person with HIV”. The
mother of the 14-month-old baby said
seeing her child being breastfed by her
neighbour was traumatising.
She alleged that her neighbour snatched
the child while she was playing outside and
hid her in her room. After searching for the
child for quite some time, she went and
knocked on Mpariwa’s rented room and got
no response. Upon peeping through the
window, she saw her breastfeeding the
little girl.
I was shocked. I nearly fainted,” she said,
adding that her bosoms were leaking milk
yet she was not a nursing mother or
pregnant.
This is really sad. If you were the parents of
this child what would you do?
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