A five year jail term awaits the brutal 'Step Mum' accused of torturing her four year old 'son'

 BARELY two years after a Zambia Air Force officer was jailed six years for torturing her 11-year-old niece, a military officer’s wife been arrested for allegedly inflicting pain on her innocent four-year-old step son using a knife and whip.

The alleged brutal assault happened while the child’s father was away on duty in Zambezi.

Yesterday, a heart aching video went viral on Facebook in which the visibly bruised victim was narrating to his teacher how her ‘mother’, whom police have identified as Langiwe Ngosa, 29, has allegedly by beating him using different weapons.

In the clip, the child, clad in a school uniform, has fresh and dry bruises on his hand, face, back, on the stomach, the leg while his swollen right hand is also bandaged because of an injury on the fingers.

Below is part of conversation between the teacher and the conspicuously withdrawn boy, whom told her teacher that his dad is as soldier who usually goes for work.

Teacher: “What happened here [on the bruised lower eye]?”

Child: “Its mummy, who beat[en] me”.

Teacher: “Who beat you on the [bruised] forehead?

Child: “Its mummy who beat me”.

Teacher: “Show me your [hurt] hand, what happened here?”

Child: “Mummy’s beat[en] me”.

Teacher: Is it paining”

Child: “Yes”.

Teacher: What did mummy use to hurt you?

Child: “with a knife”.

Teacher: “Where else did mummy beat you?” the teacher asked before the child showed her his wound marked stomach, back and thighs.

“Come I help you dress up my darling, teacher loves you okay?” the female teacher told the boy and hugged the boy whose face, in accordance with the Child Code Act, should have ideally been hidden.

Police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said in a statement Ms Ngosa of house number MC2A 78 Appolo Barack has been arrested for allegedly assaulting the child.

“Marcopolo Police post received a report of Assault on a Child in which Christopher Bwalya, a Zambia military police officer who reported having brought in Male juvenile aged four who was assaulted by his step mother,” Mr Hamoonga said.

He said the victim sustained old and fresh beatings marks all over his body, a fresh cut on the right-hand forehead and left cheeck.

“This occurred between May 2023 and August 05, 2023, at around 12:00 hours at house number MC2A 78 Appolo Baracks in Lusaka,” Mr Hamoonga said.

Brief facts of the matter are that the victim was left in custody of Ms Ngosa by his father Justine Bwalya, a military officer who is in Zambezi district on duty.

“The child was being beaten and abused by the step mother and this led to the military police at Appolo to report the matter to the police. The suspect has since been arrested and detained in custody.

“A police medical form was issued, and the child is now in the custody of the uncle in Chawama compound,” Mr Hamoonga.

In January 2021, the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court jailed ZAF lieutenant Mildred Luwaile of ZAF Twin Palm six years imprisonment for torturing her 11-year-old niece using spoons and knives.

The minimum mandatory sentence for assaulting a child is five years in jail.

Src: Mwebantu