Mother of four imprisoned for dumping baby in pit latrine

Dec 14, 2008

A WOMAN who dropped her nine-day-old baby in a latrine has been sentenced to three years in prison. Fatuma Auro, a mother of four, said she desperately wanted a boy child.

By Moses Nampala

A WOMAN who dropped her nine-day-old baby in a latrine has been sentenced to three years in prison. Fatuma Auro, a mother of four, said she desperately wanted a boy child.

She became disappointed when she delivered a girl, yet her co-wife, a mother of three, had two boys.
Auro threw the infant, only named as Nyafwono, in a pit latrine on November 10 in Nagongera town council, Tororo district. On the fateful day, relatives say they saw Auro moving between her house and the latrine.

One of the children who visited the latrine, alerted people around the home that she heard a baby crying from the latrine. Auro was arrested after she could not say where her baby was.

Residents removed the body from the latrine and buried it. The Tororo chief magistrate, Moses Anguwalia, passed the sentence against Auro.

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