THE 19-year-old young woman who was filmed assaulting her grandmother recently, was granted bail of N$500 by the Oshakati Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
Theresia Mweshininga was arrested on Sunday at Oshuungu village in the Omusati region, for assaulting Lusia Nepolo (70).
She is charged with assault.
Magistrate Jozanne Klazen postponed Mweshininga’s case to 9 May this year, for legal representation and further police investigations.
Mweshininga attacked her grandmother on Friday morning while her father allegedly recorded the incident with his phone and shared the clip.
In the clip, Mweshininga and her grandmother are seen wrestling over a hoe before the teen pushed the elderly woman until she fell to the ground.
Mweshininga then sat on her grandmother’s stomach, while shouting at the elderly woman in Oshiwambo, saying: “Don’t bite me. Why are you biting me?”
The voice of a man is heard in the background telling another man not to separate Mweshininga and her grandmother.
“Kaboy, let Ndalila (Mweshininga) kill the old woman. I don’t like people who have no respect,” the man said.
Narrating her ordeal to journalists at her house on Sunday, Nepolo said prior to the incident, she had told Mweshininga to leave the house, and the teenager jumped on her.
“It happened in the presence of her father but her father did not say anything. One of my grandsons wanted to come to my rescue but his father told him not to do so,” Nepolo said.
She also said the teenager has accused her of being naughty, being a witch and being poor.
Nepolo also accused her granddaughter of biting her on her cheek, beneath her eye.
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