A 24-year old woman from Bulawayo has been sentenced to 5 years in jail for unlawful termination of pregnancy.
Junior Ncube appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Amanda Ndlovu where she was found guilty.
She will , however serve an effective four year term in jail after year was suspended on conditions that she refrains from the same offence
within the next five years.
The court heard that sometime in November last year residents from Pumula South Suburb stumbled upon a gruesome discovery ; dog eating a human foetus .
Upon seeing this , they immediately rushed to the police station to report the matter.
During investigations it is reported that the residents tipped the police that Ncube was pregnant.
Acting from that tipoff , police questioned Ncube but she denied having an involvement with the foetus.
As a result she was sent for a scan which revealed that her stomach her stomach had recently enlarged and contracted within a week indicating the presence of a life within it.
The court heard that the findings contradicted with Ncube’s claims of not being the culprit.
SOURCE : BMETRO
