Mother arrested in Balaka for scalding her 3-year-old son

Police in Balaka district east of Malawi is keeping in custody a 26-year-old mother for allegedly scalding her three-year old son.

Scalded for stealing relish
Scalded for stealing relish
Ndaona: Arrested for scalding her son
Ndaona: Arrested for scalding her son

Police publicist Inspector Joseph Sauka says the suspect Ndaona Samson was scalded the child as a punishment for stealing beans.

“The suspect left the victim home for the market, and when she came back, she found that the victim had eaten some beans which she was cooking. This did not please the suspect who took hold of the child and dipped both his hands into burning charcoal,” said Sauka.

Worse still Sauka says “the suspect did not take the child to the hospital for treatment” despite the victim having scalds over his palms “but the issue was reported to police by concerned villagers after a week.”

Meanwhile, the suspect is still in police custody and is expected to appear before court soon where he will answer a case of unlawful wounding which is contrary to section 241 of the Penal code.

Ndaona Samson comes from Joshua village, Senior Chief Msamala in the same district of Balaka.

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65 replies on “Mother arrested in Balaka for scalding her 3-year-old son”

  1. Njala zinthu kudula pa malawi. Mwanayotu ndi njala komanso khololo likusowa popgwira to feed the kids.

  2. I CONCUR TO SOME OF THE COMMENTATORS BEFORE THAT THIS LADY SHOULD NOT BE INCARCERATED IN JAIL BUT BE GIVEN A COMMUNITY WORK OR SUSPENDED SENTENCE AS THIS IS NOT A GRAVE FELONY PEOPLE HAVE COMMITTED IN MALAWI.LIKE STEALING 4 BILLION KWACHA BY ONE LUTEPO.

    ANYONE WHO CAN DENY NOT BEING WHIPPED UP BY THEIR MUM? NORMALLY MUMS ARE RENOWN IN INSTILLING MILITARY PUNISHMENTS TO THEIR CHILDREN AS COMPARED TO FATHERS!

    LET HER GO HOME TO CONTINUE LOOKING AFTER HER SON. GOD SHOULD FORGIVE HER ACT AND SHE LEARN FROM THIS

  3. Kunena zowona pamenepa palibe mulandu,mtsikanayo akuyene kungolandila malangizo,osati anthu mukufunira.Nanga ana omweonso pot azifuna amai awo,muganize bwino plz.

  4. Kulanga mwana satelo.mukanapeza njila ina osatikumuotcha mwana.ah mwina mumafuna mudye manjao ngati chindapusa chanyembazo.You need EXORCISM women

  5. Sanabe koma anatenga coz njala inamuwawa ifeso tili ana timaba koma samatimenya dats stupid mother but dont let her in prison no

  6. Mayiyu koma mwanayu adatulutsadi yekha kuchipatala?chifukwa potulutsa pamakhala ululu woti sangachite chonchi,pachiujeni pake mai ameneyu, sindikudziwa amuna awo chitaponji?.

  7. Chamba mayiwa amasuta sindikayika look @ her lips & she is on rastafarian ligalia xiiiiiiii

  8. She was discouraging her son to be future Lutepos,Caroline savala and other future phwiyos.If Malawi had 30 mothers like this,they would be no theft of public funds.Zilonda zipola ndipo sazabanso moyo mwake.

  9. Here the mother seems to be living lonely becoz in the statement it says one of the nearby reported the matter to police station.Somehow am sensing some abnormalities which surely Police requires to investigate.How could this lady be living lonely?Where is the father of this son?Then what about the relatives on both sides the father as well as this lady?We must also learn from such events mostly men who are fond of impregnating and dumping ladies look the child is in prison/suffering.The todays Malawi to live its no joke there4 its unfair to leave the lady taking care of.This lady is suffering to take care of the child and putting her in prison its no solution.We need to teach the lady by supporting her to start something to earn a living whereby it will surely calm her spirit from being violent.Mavuto ndithu tisachuluke nzeru zomangonyoza and sometimes mutu wakeso suli bwino.A police chonde study her and thoroughly investigate the true answer will be discovered.Ndende its not solution.

  10. Malawi should strive to get all girls to school. My point is, this young mother looks like someone who has never been to school. Look at her again!. And, no woman who knows aeiou can never do such a thing.

  11. Balaka is in need of deliverance, what a heartless mother was this the only option of punishing this little kid? nanga ikanakhala nyama akanamudula nthulinthulitu ameneyu.

  12. If the mother of a child will be senteced for some years with hard labour to jail will u be responsible to take care of his kids(police&villagers).

  13. tansiyani maiyo zasiyana pati ndi shoot to kill. kuba kumayambira panyumba tili ana. kukonza mtundu wa bwino wa mawa! assa!!

  14. The poverty is evil. if mother had enough she could give her child enough to eat and the child could not take anything without the mother knowing.

    people with enough food force their children to eat any thing but the children they don’t eat!

    my humble request to world please let share with others!

  15. what a shame to you.kodi mwana ungamupase chilango chimecho.u unaba kangati ndiwo uli mwana.mesa mayi wako wangukugowoke.mbwe iwi today upanga venivo.i nthink 2yrs jailed zikakukwani ntchunga.hake!!!

  16. Abale, poverty can destroy a nation. Scalding a child over BEANS. What if it was chicken, this child would have been killed.
    And to think the child was only hungry. Mmhhh

  17. ok guys , langa ndi Funso, kodi chithunzi aika a Nyasa times apachi ndi cha mwana wa zaka zitatu?
    mchitidwe umenewu ukuchulukira kobasi ofunika chilango chokhwima kwambiri?

  18. Tisacommente kwambiri chifukwa palibe yemwe anangokula osaba ndiwo,koma ngakhale apatsidwe zaka zambiri kundende mwanayo alera ndan?mwana amasangalala akakhala ndi make……..

  19. You get scalded when the source of heat is liquid eg hot water, thobwa. But if the child hands were put on burning charcoal as reported here then that is burns. Anyway, that a side this is not the better way of disciplining children

  20. Nde a Thindwa mkumati kunja kuno kulibe UFITI, nanga izi n’chianinso nanga?? God have mercy on us.

  21. nyembazo mwanayo akanadya nao after kuphika, now why not just say siudya zako wadya kale? nanga atamuotcha nyembazo zabwerera? maiwa ndiolakwa kangapo, atatereka nyemba went kumsika nkuchedwako starving mwana ndi njala kubwera nkumuochaso. punishment isakule aphunzira basi bola agona ku police sadzayambiranso; mukaonjeza chilango mwanayo avutika womusamalira.

  22. Evil mother. Koma limeneli zoona lingakhale dzanja la mwana wa three years? What kind of reporting is this. Please learn to verify facts before presenting them to the public.

  23. makolo tisamchitile nkhaza ana obereka tonkha chonchi ai. alangidwe ameneyo kuti ena aphunzililepo

  24. Very bad,is she really a mother that she even felt pain from her vagina,in delivering the son?
    She must be a wizard.

  25. Amai awa ngankhanza zoophya kwambili kumeneku ndikupha mwanayu alimabvuto osaneneka ndimaiwa. Zilondazi nzofunika chipatala chenicheni usiku sakugona mwananayu.

  26. Zonsezo ndi chifukwa cha umphawi mwananso anadya ndiwo anali ndi njala osati dala. Just forgive this mother ngakhale analakwa.

  27. apolice abalaka ndi mbuzi munthu ndiwo zake ndizomwezo zoti adyere pakhomo mwanayo achira sazabapo ndiwo phikanso apolice aku balaka ngati uli umbuli or umphawi kapena ufiti womanga anthu nkhani zopusa mulimbana nkhani za banja bwanji zakatapila zangongole malo momagwira mbava ndikulemba izi mopsa mtima daily amanga wakuti balaka yokha yokha amanga gaaaaaa nkhani yokwata ka hule mwana wa kapiiiiii wakwata kamwana mphuzitsi wakwata ka mwana mbava yina ya police ayigwira ndi zipolo polo mbuzi ziiiiii ndizitsiru kwambiri musamale tatopa nanu atuluke mai

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