HIV WOMAN ARRESTED FOR BREASTFEEDING NEIGHBOUR'S BABY

A Zimbabwean woman who breastfed a neighbour's baby without her
consent faces a possible two-year sentence for deliberately infecting
another person with HIV after she tested positive.
39-year-old Annie Mpariwa appeared in court on Wednesday … the case
was deferred to October 24 to allow a second HIV test to be performed
on the toddler. The child's initial results were negative. Mpariwa was
arrested last week on charges of common nuisance and should the child
test positive; the charge will be raised to "deliberately infecting
another person 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 child while she was
playing outside and hid her in her room.
After searching for the child for quite some time, she went and
knocked on Mpariwa's rented room and got no response.
Upon peeping through the window, she saw her breastfeeding the little girl.
I was shocked. I nearly fainted," she said, adding that her breasts
were leaking milk yet she was not a nursing mother or pregnant.
The incident comes in the wake of a newly enacted law on HIV and Aids
that calls for stiffer penalties on people who deliberately infect
others with HIV.