A couple who failed to take their three year old child to hospital after he was seriously bitten by the employer's do resulting in the child's death have been consequently clobbered with a 3 year jail term each.
Paul Kanoyeredza (41) and Juliet Dawu (30) were accused of negligence and charged with culpable homicide.
Dawu was a stepmother to the deceased boy.
On February 13 at around midday, Dawu was in the house when she saw the boy being chased by their employer’s dogs. As the boy was running for safety, he fell on top of a gas stove which was inside the bedroom.
Dawu lifted up the boy, who was lying on the floor. She saw that the boy was injured from dog bites and had also lost three front teeth. Dawu advised her husband about the incident.
The husband examined the boy and saw the injuries. The couple did not take the baby to hospital until February 17 when they found him lying on his stomach in the toilet bleeding through the mouth. The couple subsequently took the boy to the hospital but he died on the way.
- Herald
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