Couple Arrested For Burning Daughter As Form Of Punishment

A Mufakose couple found themselves behind bars after they reportedly burnt their daughter as form of punishment for being ‘naughty’.

According to Hmetro, the couple Luwini Ngoni Rugova (37) and her husband Freddy Katandika (32) , were not asked to plead when they appeared before Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga who remanded them into custody.

It is the State’s case that on June 24 at around 9pm, Rugova, who is the step mother to the grade 3 girl, told her husband Katandika that the child was playing with her step brother’s phone. Katandika then took a stick and assaulted the complainant several times all over her body then forcibly placed the victim’s hands on a hot stove and after the act ordered her to go to sleep.

Rugova is said to not have bothered to check on the child’s wounds which were severe, forcing the child to apply salt on them and wrap them up with a bandage.

Concerned neighbors are believed to have tipped the police off leading to the couple’s arrest