HIV Positive Woman deliberatly breast feeds neighbour’s baby

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 A Zimbabwean woman who breastfed her neighbour's baby without her consent faces a possible two-year sentence for deliberately infecting another individual with HIV after she tested positive.

39-year-old Annie Mpariwa appeared in court on Wednesday, the case was moved to October 24 allowing an additional HIV test to be performed on the toddler. The child initial effects were negative.

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Mpariwa was arrested last week on charges of common nuisance and should the kid test positive; the charge will be raised to deliberately infecting another individual with HIV
The mother of the 14-month-old baby said seeing her child being breastfed by her neighbour was traumatising.

She alleged that her neighbour snatched the kid while she was playing outside and hid her in her room.After searching for the kid for quite some time, she went and knocked on Mpariwa rented room and got no response.Upon peeping through the window, she saw her breastfeeding the small girl.

I was shocked. I nearly fainted,” she said, adding that her breasts were leaking milk yet she wasn't a nursing mother or pregnant.The incident comes in the wake of a recently enacted law on HIV and Aids that requires stiffer penalties on people who deliberately infect others with HIV

breastfed her neighbour’s baby without her consent