A Murehwa man murdered his daughter with hopes of alleviating the responsibility of paying US$30 for her upkeep.
The man named Charles Kavhumbura committed the heinous crime on the 14th of October 2017 according to court papers.
Charles dumped his daughter’s body in a pond but she was discovered on the following day by a student who was fetching water.
The now deceased and her brother had visited their father at his grinding mill at Susman Farm, Juru, Murewa. The children had been sent by their mother, Pedzisai Kachepa to get money for their upkeep. Kachepa and Kavhumbura had divorced, with the latter having moved on and married another wife.
Justice Chitapi ruled that evidence against Kavhumbura was overwhelming even though he had initially pleaded innocent. The judge said it was disheartening to think that Kavhumbura knew right from wrong.
“In fact, his motive to kill the deceased was to save himself from the obligation to outlay more money as maintenance. He decimated part of his family by selfishly murdering the deceased for no just cause,” the judge said.
The circumstances of the murder must have left Kavhumbura’s family traumatised and the community he lived in dumbfounded. To devour one’s own child in order to avert a lawful obligation to pay maintenance as ordered by the courts cannot be countenanced in an informed society governed through the rule of law.”
This story is yet another sad case of a person that died in vain. It is alarming how some people can make the decision of ending someone else’s life in the blink of an eye. Just last week a woman died in Waterfalls trying to defend an elderly woman from being assaulted during a robbery. The robber shot her in the head over 60 US dollars and cellphones.