Singer DaputsaNkhata, popularly known as Sista D, has condemned a circulating graphic video depicting a maid brutalising an under five child.
Sista D, who is also a child’s rights activist, advised parents to constantly monitor their children to avoid abuse at the hands of maids. A home surveillance video, originating from Uganda, went viral on social media a week ago showing a maid beating up a baby while forcibly trying to feed her. The one minute 57 second footage picked by an internal security camera shows the young woman, believed to be a maid, hurling commands at the baby in the living room. After several slaps on the baby’s face, the maid begins to eat the baby’s food while gazing at what seemed to be a television set in front of her. The baby tries to sit up but immediately starts to vomit on the furniture.
The maid then pushes the baby to the floor where she lands face down and proceeds to spank her. The child lets out a deafening cry but the maid grabs an object and repeatedly spanks her on the buttocks as she continues crying helplessly. After viewing the video, Sista D said she would equally beat up such a maid. “It’s evil to do such a thing to a baby and I can’t imagine a woman doing that to a child; I wonder if she has ever given birth and has the feeling of a mother and emotions that come with having a child,” she said. Sista D said not everyone was born to love children and the job of being a maid should only be taken by those with a passion for children.
And Singer Danny Siulapwa warned that similar abuses may be happening in Zambia and urged parents to keep an eye on their maids. “It should be an eye opener that despite trusting people with our children, we need to keep an eye on them.
These things probably happen in a number of houses,” he said. “She (the Ugandan maid) should be investigated instead of just being arrested because I don’t think any human being would do that.” Danny further urged maid centres to ensure people were properly trained to serve in Zambian homes.
“We need maids who are sensible and have been taken through proper training so those companies involved in that should take their roles seriously,” said Danny.
The Ugandan maid was reportedly arrested and remanded in Luzira Prison in Kampala and her charge was charge from child battering to attempted murder.
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