THE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has set August 7, 2024, for judgement in a matter in which a 27-year-old woman of Lusaka’s Libala South area is charged with assault on a child. In her defence, Elina Mwaleza, a sales lady, told the court that her daughter, whom she is alleged to have assaulted, fell on a hot iron while she was beating her. It is alleged that on December 16, 2023, in Lusaka, Mwaleza assaulted her eight-year-old daughter Mwaleza is alleged to have injured her daughter on the hand and thigh with a hot iron. When the matter came up for defence before Magistrate Mutinta Mwenya, Wednesday, Mwaleza testified that her child got burnt by accident because she had forgotten to...