Sudden appearance of general body malaise, a series of skin infections
followed by other health complications in a three-year-old boy brought
about panic and a puzzling reaction to parents of three in Dodoma, not
aware that a more shocking surprise was around the corner.
On realising that their kid was an HIV-positive, they soon became
suspicious of the doctors’ findings over possibility of the kid catching
the mainly inheritable or sexually transmitted disease from the healthy
parents, they certainly were.
But their shocking eyebrows raised higher when they discovered it was
their housemaid Jane from Turiani in Morogoro Region who was the source
of the kid’s fatal disease that they could not help, but brand her
paedophile.
The mother fell in a short comma later on hearing Jane’s confession
during police interrogations that she would routinely feed the child
with porridge mixed with her menstrual blood for motives she never
disclosed.
Mwamvita Haule, a Dar es Salaam-based businesswoman and former civil
servant who lived next door to the child’s family in Dodoma could not
hold back her tears while narrating the 10-year-old episode.
“I don’t want to guess of what might have happened to the kid who would
be 13 now, as we parted with the family soon after the incident,” she
said.
“Her cruelty is beyond human imagination; I wonder the extent of pain
she caused the family who had treated her like their own daughter,” she
said demonstrating an impact of the bitter experience left in her.
Ms Haule likened Jane’s cruelty with that of a 22-year-old Ugandan maid,
Jolly Tumuhirwe who was jailed for four years in December for
committing an “unjustifiable and inexcusable” crime by abusing a toddler
under her care.
It was a case that shocked the world that the media described the video
footage showing the nanny performing her devilish acts on the toddler as
“spine-chilling” and “very disturbing” and the judge describing the
crime as “ruthlessness exhibited” on an “innocent, helpless child.”
Seemingly frightened by the horrible experience in keeping nannies, Mama
Caroline, an industrial worker living at Kimara Temboni and a mother of
three has vowed to never hire any, but wish she could afford sending
her last kid to a day-care centre.
“If I had enough money, I would have rather kept my three-year-old child
at a day-care centre than running a risk of keeping the kid at the
mercy of a house girl,” she said.
Source: Guardian
Mbinu Za Kumfikisha Kileleni Mwanamke Mwenye Makalio Makubwa Kwa Haraka: BONYZA HAP CHNI
