{"id":195540,"date":"2025-04-06T22:51:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T20:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mother-charged-with-trafficking-after-advertising-newborn-on-facebook-giving-baby-away\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T22:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T20:51:53","slug":"zimbabwe-mother-charged-with-trafficking-after-advertising-newborn-on-facebook-giving-baby-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mother-charged-with-trafficking-after-advertising-newborn-on-facebook-giving-baby-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mother Charged With Trafficking After Advertising Newborn On Facebook, Giving Baby Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A mother who gave away her newborn baby to another woman is in trouble following her arrest on allegations of contravening the Trafficking in Persons Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Christabel Muringami is jointly charged with Tabeth Chenyika, the woman she gave her baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The two appeared before magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa and were remanded in custody to Friday for bail application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">According to the State, sometime in January 2025 accused one (Muringami) hatched a plan to traffick her child soon after birth for an unlawful&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504040196.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mother who gave away her newborn baby to another woman is in trouble following her arrest on allegations of contravening the Trafficking in Persons Act. Christabel Muringami is jointly charged with Tabeth Chenyika, the woman she gave her baby. The two appeared before magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa and were remanded in custody to Friday for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[8051,258,256,7331,7081,8090,12983,7753,10268,257,254,6615,4686,421],"class_list":["post-195540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-advertising","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-baby","tag-charged","tag-facebook","tag-giving","tag-mother","tag-newborn","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trafficking","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}