Arusha. The High Court, Kigoma Sub-Registry, has convicted, Mr Oscar Daudi, of manslaughter over the death of his son, Davies Oscar, who had cerebral palsy, after finding that he abandoned the helpless child in a sugarcane plantation in circumstances that directly led to his death.
The court ruled that while the prosecution failed to prove murder beyond reasonable doubt, Mr Daudi’s conduct in leaving the child in a remote field amounted to gross negligence that caused the fatal outcome.
The court heard that Davies had lived with cerebral palsy from early childhood and had been under the care of his grandmother in Murubona Ward, Kasulu District, Kigoma Region, after his mother abandoned him and disappeared.
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