Father jailed for incest

May 26, 2004

COURT has sentenced a mzee to 15 years in jail for incest and defilement.

By Stephen Muwambi
COURT has sentenced a mzee to 15 years in jail for incest and defilement.
Katongole Zikusooka, 50, of Nakabululu village, Zirobwe in Luweero district was found guilty of defiling his 10-year-old daughter on October 7, 2003.
In his ruling on Tuesday, Justice Opio Aweri described Zikusooka as a beastly and dangerous man who had to be withdrawn from society for the safety of the girl child.
“l am shocked that the convict, who is father to the victim and one to protect her from premature sex, was the one who defiled her. This is incredible. It traumatised the victim, the mother and the entire family. It has the effect of destabilising the whole family,” he said.
Aweri told a shabbily dressed Katongole that he would have given him a severer sentence had it not been for his family of 12 children.
The girl told court that he defiled her in the garden where she had been posted to keep watch of vermin.
“He came with a knife, which he used to cut dry banana leaves. He told me he was going to sleep on the banana leaves. He later grabbed me, removed his trousers, stripped off my knickers and defiled me,” the girl told court.
The girl’s paternal aunt, Sarah Nabutono, who bumped into them, alerted the victim’s mother.
Aweri rejected Katongole’s defence that Nabutono had a grudge with him because he had dropped her as a wife.
“This is a lie for the accused to get away from the mess he put himself into. Nabutono was related to him by blood and could not have been his wife,” he said.
Aweri ruled out the possibility of mistaken identity on the the victim’s part.
He said Katongole was well known to his daughter whom he sexually abused, moreover in broad daylight.
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