Maid feeds minor porridge mixed with blood

fix the mother.
She is said to have had a long-standing dispute with her employer over working conditions.
Gutu magistrate Mr Nyasha Vhitorini last Monday sentenced Pelagia Mureya (17) who was employed as a domestic worker to a 12-month term but conditionally suspended four months.
The court had found her guilty of exposing “a person to the risk of contracting HIV and Aids and ill treatment of a young person”.
Mureya had denied the charge.
She claimed that the blood that was in the minor’s porridge had accidentally dropped in the plate as she was on her menstrual period.
Agreed facts are that on February 13 this year Mureya prepared some porridge for her employer’s daughter at their house in Gutu’s Gonville suburb, as she was about to go to crèche.
She then laced the porridge with some drops of her menstrual blood and served it to the little girl.
However, the mother entered the room where her daughter was eating the porridge and discovered what seemed to be blood in the plate.
She asked her maid what had gotten into the porridge but she professed ignorance prompting her to take her daughter, the maid and the spoiled porridge to Gutu Rural Hospital where it was confirmed that the drops were in fact menstrual blood.
Blood samples taken from Mureya confirmed that she was HIV positive and a report was filed with the police leading to her arrest.