Former Brigade student faces infanticide charge

FRANCISTOWN: A forensic pathologist has testified that a baby whose mother claimed was born dead was suffocated to death with plastics. Doctor Kaelo Manzira Mabaka explained before Justice Barnabas Nyamadzabo of the High Court that the baby was born alive and that it died due to suffocation.

"I performed a hydrostatic test which involves putting lungs in water. The lungs of the baby floated in water that indicates that it had some exchange of air.