A 14-year-old girl died last week while giving birth at a shrine in Bocha, Mutare.
Relatives of the late Memory Machaya are yet to come to terms with the way they were treated at Johanne Marange church where Memory was receiving prayers.
Family spokesperson Alice Mabika told H-Metro that Memory’s mother Shy Mabika was denied access to the burial of her daughter where bouncers forced her to remain silent as she mourned her daughter.
“Our hearts are bleeding. We are suffering like this because of a church doctrine.” said Mabika.
“We were denied access to witness the burial of our daughter as bouncers silenced us and warned us over spreading news of the death of our relative.
Memory, the last born in a family of six children, was having her first birth.
She was buried at the shrine where she was receiving prayers.