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Tsholotsho Woman Jailed 20 Months For "Disciplining" Rowdy Teenage Girls

3 months agoSat, 28 Dec 2024 05:44:24 GMT
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Tsholotsho Woman Jailed 20 Months For "Disciplining" Rowdy Teenage Girls

A 35-year-old woman from Tsholotsho has filed an appeal with the High Court after being sentenced to an effective 20 months in prison by Magistrate Lesigo Ngwenya for disciplining two teenage girls.

As reported by Chronicle, Qiniso Ndlovu’s altercation with the girls, known for their disruptive behaviour and frequenting local bars, escalated when they allegedly used vulgar and provocative language. Angered by their conduct, Ndlovu reportedly struck them with a stick.

However, the trial revealed conflicting evidence. A medical report submitted to the court indicated that the girls sustained serious injuries, including near-broken limbs, allegedly caused by a pick handle, though the weapon was not produced as evidence.

In her appeal, Ndlovu, represented by Makiya and Partners, contends that the magistrate erred by failing to consider community service as a more appropriate punishment. Argued Ndlovu:

The court “a quo” erred in passing a custodial sentence to the appellant despite her having pleaded to the charge and being a first offender.

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The effective sentence of 20 months was so excessive as to induce a sense of shock for a first-time female offender who pleaded to the charge, where the sentencing guidelines provide for a non-custodial sentence in the form of a fine not exceeding Level 14.

Ndlovu further argues that the court failed to adequately consider her mitigating circumstances.

As a widow, a single mother, and the sole provider for three young children, she contends that the custodial sentence has effectively separated her from her dependents.

In her appeal, Ndlovu implores the court to overturn the current sentence and remand the case to the lower court for a more appropriate and just sentencing.

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24 Comments

Anonymous · 3 months ago
That woman was supposed to mind her own nonsense
Wangu · 3 months ago
Next time she will learn to record a video and look the other way.ndikoko
maenzanise · 3 months ago
yooo
LIPSERVICE · 3 months ago
Our courts have been captured by the conceptual West....
BB · 3 months ago
Our courts have been captured by the devil.
Elder Micho · 3 months ago
Ah ah ,,saka ED pavait "vana vanofanira kurakashwa kusvika vati tasa!!" Zvaingova zveku campainer chete🤔🤔 Parliament ndizvo here zvamunoreva kana muchit muri kugadzira mitemo yebasa!!!
263 · 3 months ago
Mejisitiriti vakatengwa here ava?
Ricky · 3 months ago
Ndokusaka vana vedu vangove mabungumupee. Nyika yongotevedzera mitemo inoita kuti vana vedu vaite mapenzi. Some years to come nyika ino ichange yave yemabungumupee chete chete.
Ricky chipo · 3 months ago
Ndokusaka vana vedu vangove mabungumupee. Nyika yongotevedzera mitemo inoita kuti vana vedu vaite mapenzi. Some years to come nyika ino ichange yave yemabungumupee chete chete.
Sir African · 3 months ago
Lesigo Ngwenya Esquire ,whatever she /he is smoking is dangerous.20 months is travisty for justice in case of assault .No consideration of personal circumstances of the accused were taken into account during mitigation.A first offender as a policy is given community service and a suspended sentence. The sentence how incompetent some of these magistrate are.
Standard · 3 months ago
whenever this guy vic comments ziva madhotea oga oga.
Vic Venom · 3 months ago
Any decent human being would be anti- violence especially the kind that this alleged mother dished out on those vulnerable children ..
Vic Venom · 3 months ago
20 months is a short time in the grand scheme of things....Those young women suffered from both psychological and physical trauma due to the actions of a barbarian..A fully grown and mature 35 year old woman and alleged widow should not go around dishing out hidings like some 18th century figure...No child deserves to be subjected to the utter humiliation that comes with being beaten in public...Rant over sanity restored
Pasi Pamera Ziso · 3 months ago
Mwana akasarohwa neshamhu mamai vake acharohwa nesimbi, bhod****, wire, danda kana kuchekwa nebanga nema strangers aita zvisingaite nokuti anenge achifunga kuti hapana zvaanoitwa uye kuti anenge akanonokerwa kurairwa nekurangwa pachiine tarisiro. Unechekutaura here nhai Vic Venom? Prov 23v13&14. Our laws are derived from the biblical manual and whenever we digress from it we lose our default settings.
Vic Venom · 3 months ago
Why would someone in their right mind argue for a system that actively encourages violence... Corporal punishment is wrong and studies have shown that there is no correlation between corporal punishment and good behavior but rather the opposite is true...Most serial killers and rapists have cited corporal punishment in their youths as the reason why they later descended to such evil vices...There is no link between being a victim of a violent crime and corporal punishment...Your reasoning is disingenuous and frankly laughable...Using scripture as the basis of your argument only shows that the Bible is an archaic and outdated concept...The law is against corporal punishment and unlike you I live in the real world and not some Judeo-Christian fan fiction world....Rant over sanity restored
Pasi Pamera Ziso · 3 months ago
Chete kuti Vic Venom unoziva zvese isusu hatizive uye unechokwadi chekuti hatinawo ma experiences ezvinhu zvatinotaura uye tonosekesa mukusaziva kwedu asi zvirikuitika hazvishandurwe nekuziva kwatakaudzwa zvichibva kunyika dzamavirazuva asi kune zvinoshanda kwedu. Kana ndingabvunza kuti what is so unreal about Judeo-Christian cardinal laws from which our lawmakers swear by the bible vachiti so help me God.
LIPSERVICE · 3 months ago
Drug and substance abuse chaiyo. Huyai muone mapenzi asina kisimira ari pano. feminist atheists masquerading as human rights activist
@Vic · 3 months ago
Which studies, vana vorega kuteerera/kurangwa here ???
Rollo · 3 months ago
Ma rights and civilisation hazvidii kubatirwa mudenga. Vana vagorasika makatarisa and forever suffer the trauma of delinquency muchiti vana havarohwe? Vana ngavatwasanudzwe.
Jack · 3 months ago
these days it's so easy to find yourself jailed, or dead. Vanhu varikufa vakomanaaaa
007 · 3 months ago
pane akagura Mari chete ku vabereki vevana avo
wezhira wezheve · 3 months ago
wats going on with the sentecings these days by lower courts .so many unforgiving sentences so harsh
cde che guveira · 3 months ago
the country has gone to the dogs. corpal punishment should be returned. Children now behave in a way never seen. that's why we are reading of a 21yr old killing her grandma because she didnt give him a present. That's the results of undisciplined kids.

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