The ManicaPost
Tendai Gukutikwa Weekender Correspondent
A MIDLANDS State University student left a Mutare court gallery stunned last Thursday when he described a child he allegedly sired with his girlfriend as a ‘miracle baby’.
Takunda Mundondo told the court the baby was a ‘miracle baby’ as he had not at one time become intimate with Chitsidzo Machenge. Mutare magistrate Ms Prisca Tendai Manhibi presided over the matter.
“This is not my child, in-fact this baby is a miracle baby and that is the only explanation that I can give because, never at one time did I sleep with this woman. In fact, we were in a relationship which lasted four days only and we never had any sex,” said the furious Mundondo.
He told the court Machenge had visited him once during their short-lived relationship but nothing had happened between them because they were never alone.
He also told the court that Machenge was forcing him to accept the child and had assaulted him after realising that he wanted DNA tests for the baby.
“I will not take a birth certificate for that child because he is not mine, Your Worship, I never slept with Machenge. When I came here last week to collect a letter from the clerk of court, to take to the National Blood Transfusion Services for the DNA tests, Machenge saw me.
“She then waited for me in town and head-butted me after biting me. She told me that coming to this court was of no use because she had already decided that the baby was mine. She barred me from coming to this court,” said Mundondo.
He added: “She wants to tarnish my image, I have never slept with her but she tells all our mutual friends that I am HIV positive and that I passed it on to her. This has prompted me to go for HIV tests and showing the results to everyone she had told just to clear my reputation.’’
Machenge however, insisted she had slept with Mundondo and that the baby was his. She however, did not deny her violent attacks on him.
A protection order was granted to Mundondo. Machenge was ordered to stop insulting, harassing, assaulting and provoking her baby-daddy. This was after she had told the court she had no problems with maintaining peace with him. He however was ordered to have gone for the DNA tests by 31 August.
Ms Manhibi told the pair that Machenge could come for a maintenance upward variation on the 1st of September if Mundondo had not taken the child for the DNA tests. He is currently paying $35 maintenance pending DNA tests.
