Her mum, maid, nutrition administrator also imprisoned
CHOMBA MUSIKA
Lusaka
A JUDICIARY stores officer has been jailed five years after she connived with a maid and nutrition administrator at University Teaching Hospitals (UTH) to steal a new-born baby at the referral hospital.
Precious Nkunika, 28, was yesterday jailed alongside her 51-year-old mother, Grace Siska, who will serve a lesser two-year jail term for harbouring the stolen baby, while the maid and nutrition administrator will also serve five years.
But the court acquitted one of the five suspects, Nelly Kasalo, a UTH nutrition administrator, due to insufficient evidence.
Before passing the verdict yesterday, Lusaka magistrate Crispin Hampungani said he needed to impose a custodial sentence on the convicts especially that child stealing reports are on the rise.
The adjudicator is concerned that because of the vice, expectant mothers are now afraid of giving birth from hospitals for fear that their new-borns will be stolen…https://enews.daily-mail.co.zm/welcome/home
