TEEN REPORTS PARENTS TO POLICE OVER FORCED ABORTION OF SIX-MONTH PREGNANCY
AN 18-YEAR-OLD woman of Namwala District has reported her parents to the police for allegedly administering a concoction that aborted her six-month pregnancy as they arranged her marriage to a man of their choice.
Police have since started investigating the parents over the suspected incident, which happened on January 1 this year.
After the woman’s alleged ‘successful abortion’, her parents invited their preferred man on January 16 so that they could get their daughter into marriage.
However, the daughter turned down the marriage and ran away to go and stay with her aunt within Namwala.
Information about her carrying the boyfriend’s baby was known in August last year, but her parents were not in support of the relationship.
Southern Province police commanding officer Moono Namalongo said in a statement yesterday that his officers are investigating the teenager’s parents for allegedly procuring an abortion.
Mr Namalongo said the suspected traditional medicine was administered on the woman on January 1, but that the matter was only reported to the police on Friday last week.
“On January 16, 2026, the intended suitor was invited to the parents’ home and the woman was handed over as a wife but she resisted,” he said.
“The man allegedly forced her to accompany him to his residence, but she was rescued by members of the public.”
Mr Namalongo added: “She later sought refuge at her aunt’s residence. On February 6, 2026, she reported the matter to the police.” He said no one has been
arrested yet.
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