In a similar case last year a woman in Lusaka gave birth to this creature
Police in Kalomo have arrested a 45-year-old woman of Chikoli B village in chief Sipatunyana’s area after she claimed to have given birth to a strange creature.
Police say the woman caused alarm to the public when she told her 24-year-old husband, only identified as King, that she had given birth to a doll.
Southern Province police deputy commissioner Milner Muyambango identified the woman as Miness Siamukosi, who was currently in police custody under investigations.
“On 9th December around 20:00 hours police officers picked a woman for causing commotion in Kalomo town after she informed her husband that she had given birth to a doll, which is currently in our possession also. Now when word went round in the township, people got confused to an extent of disturbing peace,” he said.
Muyambango said preliminary investigations indicated that the woman fabricated the story, but that police were on the ground to ascertain the validity of the information.
He said police were yet to contact the medical doctor at Kalomo General Hospital who is said to have attended to the woman before she allegedly gave birth to a doll.
“We want to find out if really this woman was pregnant. That’s why we have engaged the medical doctor,” said Muyambango.
And King’s cousin, Honest Cheelo, narrated in an interview that when Siamukosi allegedly developed labour pains around midnight on Tuesday, she sent her husband to call for help.
“When her husband came back with someone to assist, she asked him to call another person. So the husband went back, and upon returning with another person, his wife had delivered. The man demanded to see the baby, but it was dark and she didn’t want to switch on the light. But the husband insisted and switched on the lights. He got confused when he found a doll, and the woman told him that that was what she had delivered,” said Cheelo. “That’s when she was taken to Kalomo hospital. After examining her, health authorities said there was no sign that she had just delivered. They were referred to Zimba Hospital, but before they could leave, the police in Kalomo demanded that before going to Zimba, they carry out investigations on the same issue. When police went to the house for the woman, they didn’t find blood on the doll or on her showing that someone gave birth. She was also asked for the placenta, but she said she had thrown it away.”