A broke couple has been arrested after selling their baby to a woman who wanted to please her South Africa-based husband. Merancia Mus...
A broke couple has been arrested after selling their baby
to a woman who wanted to please her South Africa-based husband.
Merancia Musoni (28) and husband Zephenia Sibanda, also 28
, and his sister Edina Sibanda (34) sold their son to a woman who had faked a
pregnancy.
B Metro reports that the baby was, however, intercepted at the Beitbridge border
post as the woman, Nontuthuko Ncube attempted to smuggle the boy to South
Africa after the deal went sour.
The quartet has since appeared before a Kwekwe magistrate
facing human trafficking charges. Magistrate Storey Rushambwa remanded them in
custody to 9 September for trial.
Ncube who was in South Africa with her husband Matthew
Mlalazi lied that she had fallen pregnant and according to her family
traditions she was not allowed to give birth in a foreign land hence she had to
travel back to Zimbabwe.
Upon her arrival in Zimbabwe, she shared her plight with
Ncube who is her landlord who then hatched a plan to dupe her husband. NCube
then informed Nontuthuko not to worry as her brother Zephania had a baby boy.
A meeting was held and a plan was hatched that Mlalazi be
called from South Africa to see their baby. mlalazi, who like a real father
came heavily laden with groceries mainly for the upkeep of the newly born baby.
Quickly, a birth certificate was acquired with the child
being christened Munyaradzi Junior Mlalazi. The matter came to light, however,
when Mlalazi insisted that they take the baby to Soith Africa.
The move did not go down well with Musoni who then reported
the matter to the police leading to their arrest. The baby was intercepted at
Beitbridge border post where Ncube was apprehended.
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