A Zimbabwean nanny,
Violet Moyo, 22, was sentenced on
Thursday, for 22 years for the
murder of a 10-month-old baby, after being found guilty of murder over what the judge said was a "very
cruel and brutal" death, the state-run Chronicle newspaper reported.
Moyo, was left in
charge of the baby boy while the parents went to work and had fed him and put
him to bed.
But the child
woke up after five hours and started crying, the prosecution said.
Moyo tried in
vain to calm the boy and in frustration she wrapped him in a blanket, "for crying too much" and
stuffed him in a linen drawer and shut
it while she went to watch a film on television.
She went to check
on the child after three hours and found he was dead, the newspaper said
Friday.
High court judge
Lawrence Kamocha described the baby's death as "very cruel and
brutal".
"Despite the
baby's distressed cry, you chose to ignore him and went to the lounge to watch
a television movie which is quite clear you wanted to kill him," Kamocha
said.
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