At Misisi Township in Lusaka, Zambia, a 33-year-old woman was sentenced to prison for assaulting her 8-year-old biological son over a piece of chicken.

On Friday, January 7, Lusaka magistrate Trevor Kasanda sentenced Jessy Banda to five years in prison after she admitted guilt.

After brutalizing her son with an iron bar on his genitals on December 26, 2021, Banda was charged with one count of assault on a child.

She admitted the charge and told the court how she hit her 8-year-old son in the private parts with an iron bar after he stole a piece of chicken. She claimed she didn’t have the authority to harm the child.

According to the facts of the case, Banda hit the boy with a sharp object the day after Christmas, causing him to sustain a deep wound on his spectrum.

As the boy cried, a good Samaritan came to his aid and rushed him to the hospital, where he was treated and a medical report was issued, according to Simuusa.

He claimed that a detective inspector Munalula from the Kabwata Police Station took up the case and apprehended Banda, who was on the run at the time.

Banda voluntarily and freely admitted the charge, according to the prosecutor, and the court convicted her after she confirmed that the facts of the case were true and correct.

Banda requested leniency, claiming that she had no idea she would injure her own child to such an extent.

She pleaded for mercy, saying that if she was imprisoned, her other children would suffer. She stated that she would never do what she did to the child again because she had learned her lesson.

The court sentenced her to five years in prisonbeddause the offence’s framers mandated a minimum sentence of five years to protect children.