The Manica Provincial Court, in central Mozambique, on Friday sentenced a traditional healer (“curandeiro”), Samsao Muiambo, to seven years imprisonment for trafficking in people.According to a report in the Beira daily paper “Diario de Mocambique”, the healer was found guilty of purchasing a child, sold by the child’s own father, John Thaunde Mahvahve. The amount of money paid by Muiambo was not specified.Mahvahve was sentenced earlier this year for six years imprisonment, for the crime of selling his daughter. His prison term is shorter than Muiambo’s because he confessed his crime.The girl was bought and sold in the locality of Chitsama, in the Manica district o Mossurize. “Diario de Mocambique” reports that in Chitsama it is quite common for parents to sell children in order to obtain money.This is the first time that such a case has come to court.
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