A MOTHER-OF-SIX has been placed under probation by the High Court in Suva after being found guilty of infanticide.
Tavenisa Raceva was found to have willfully suffocated her unnamed infant child to death on March 9, 2017 at Navua.
Justice Salesi Temo said the accused was a 39-year-old mother at the time, unmarried with six children aged between 22 to three-years-old.
She was looking after her three younger children, aged 11, five and three, at the family farm at Vakabalea, Navua, along with her 82-year-old mother.
There was no financial or emotional support from the fathers of her children and she had to raise them as a single mother.
The probation order issued is subject to the following conditions, including mandatory counselling with the Department of Social Welfare as frequently as the department saw fit.
Ms Raceva has also been advised to remain at her residence.
Failure to comply with the terms of this order would result in sentencing.
Navua Magistrates Court will be the supervising court in this case.
