Woman miscarries after hubby bashing

Western Commonage magistrate heard that a 23-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man beat up his wife for taking a nap in the afternoon resulting in her suffering a miscarriage.

Its was the State's case that sometime in July this year, Happymore Sibanda of Nketa 7 suburb found his 20-year-old wife Ms Paidamoyo Khuphe who was 3 months pregnant sleeping in the afternoon at their Nketa 7 suburb rented home because she was not feeling well.

He ordered her to wake up claiming that she was faking the sickness and accused her of being a lazy woman. This did not go down well with the complainant and as such a misunderstanding arose.

Sibanda punched his wife and battering her with a stick several times all over the body. At around 4PM, on the same day, Khuphe started bleeding and went to the hospital the following day where she was told she had suffered a miscarriage.

The court heard that Sibanda had earlier assaulted his wife after she failed to enter a recharge pin for electricity. He had allegedly instructed her to go and seek tutoring from their fellow tenant but she had refused as she felt too embarrassed to ask for assistance.

Sibanda appeared before Magistrate Ms Tancy Dube charged with three counts of physical abuse.

Sibanda pleaded guilty to all the charges of physically abusing his 20-year-old wife Ms Paidamoyo Khuphe whom he accused of being too lazy.  Ms Dube remanded him to Monday for sentence.