Schoolgirl suspected of concealing birth
A 16-year-old grade 8 learner at Ondjamba Combined School was arrested on Tuesday on a charge of concealment of birth.
Deputy Commissioner Naomi Katjiua of the Oshikoto police said the girl allegedly committed the offence at her home village of Epembe-Longa at about 01:00 the same day.
“It is alleged the suspect gave birth to a baby boy and wrapped it in a plastic bag and hid it in a suitcase under the bed in her sleeping hut, and left for school early [Tuesday] morning,” Katjiua stated.
According to Katjiua, the girl's guardian went into her hut at about 10:00 and saw blood all over the place. She called the police.
Upon her arrest, the girl was admitted to the hospital at Omuthiya under police guard.
A post-mortem will be conducted to determine if the baby had been born alive.
Katjiua also confirmed the arrest of one of the suspects in a robbery at Farm Onsplaas, situated some 20km from Tsumeb, earlier this month.
Thimoteus Nghinashindatila Mukete, 34, from Okakwa village in the Ohangwena Region, was arrested on Wednesday last week and appeared in the Tsumeb Magistrate's Court on Friday.
The case was postponed to 23 October for further investigations.
He was remanded in custody.
“Three more suspects are still at large,” Katjiua said.
It is alleged that Mukete and the others on 6 September entered the farm under the pretence of buying goats. They tied up the elderly farm owners, Lukas Nel and his wife, with electrical wire and locked them in a room.
They then stole N$16 000 and fled the scene with Nel's 4x4 bakkie that was later found abandoned on the premises of the Dundee Precious Metal mine in Tsumeb.
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Deputy Commissioner Naomi Katjiua of the Oshikoto police said the girl allegedly committed the offence at her home village of Epembe-Longa at about 01:00 the same day.
“It is alleged the suspect gave birth to a baby boy and wrapped it in a plastic bag and hid it in a suitcase under the bed in her sleeping hut, and left for school early [Tuesday] morning,” Katjiua stated.
According to Katjiua, the girl's guardian went into her hut at about 10:00 and saw blood all over the place. She called the police.
Upon her arrest, the girl was admitted to the hospital at Omuthiya under police guard.
A post-mortem will be conducted to determine if the baby had been born alive.
Katjiua also confirmed the arrest of one of the suspects in a robbery at Farm Onsplaas, situated some 20km from Tsumeb, earlier this month.
Thimoteus Nghinashindatila Mukete, 34, from Okakwa village in the Ohangwena Region, was arrested on Wednesday last week and appeared in the Tsumeb Magistrate's Court on Friday.
The case was postponed to 23 October for further investigations.
He was remanded in custody.
“Three more suspects are still at large,” Katjiua said.
It is alleged that Mukete and the others on 6 September entered the farm under the pretence of buying goats. They tied up the elderly farm owners, Lukas Nel and his wife, with electrical wire and locked them in a room.
They then stole N$16 000 and fled the scene with Nel's 4x4 bakkie that was later found abandoned on the premises of the Dundee Precious Metal mine in Tsumeb.
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