THE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has convicted and sentenced a 32-year-old businesswoman of Old Kanyama to five years simple imprisonment for assaulting her daughter. Alice Mweene beat her 10-year-old daughter with a cooking stick and later put her on a brazier where she sustained injuries on her buttocks. In this matter, Mweene was facing one count of assault on a child Contrary to Section 248 (a) of the Penal Code Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia. Particulars of the offence alleged that Mweene, on April 12, 2024, in Lusaka, did assault pseudonym Beatrice Mutale, a child under the age of 16 years, thereby occasioning her actual bodily harm. When the matter came up for plea before Magistrate Amy Masoja Chilangwa,...