MAN CONVICTED FOR KILLING HIS 2 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER

GRACE CHAILE-LESOETSA writes
@sunzambian
THE Lusaka High Court has convicted a man of Kanyama Township for causing the death of his two-year-old daughter.
Luckson Manda, 32, was yesterday convicted by Judge William Mweemba after he pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter.
Facts of the offence are that on July 10, this year, around 12:00 hours, Manda was at home with his two year old daughter Gift.
The victim started crying continuously and this angered Manda and he started beating the child to stop her crying.
After beating the daughter, Manda negligently lifted her from where she was and the child fell down hitting her head on the ground. She started bleeding from the noise and mouth and was rushed to the hospital where the victim was pronounced dead.
A postmortem was conducted and the cause of death was brain haemorrhage due to fatal blunt force head injury.
In mitigation , Manda through his lawyer Legal Aid, Jonas Matende said he was very remorseful for having caused the death of his daughter and it is a burden he will have to carry throughout his life especially that Gift was his only child.
He said since his arrest on July 13, 2020, he has come to a realization that prison is not a good place and vowed to walk a straight path before the law.
Manda said he has since started going to church to help him manage his temper.
Mr Justice Mweemba adjourned the matter to December 14, this year for sentencing.