Court hailed over defiler’s verdict
May 03, 2010
THE guardian of a four-year-old girl has hailed court for sentencing the man who defiled her child to 25 years in prison. The girl, who was seven months when she was defiled in 2006, was abandoned by her mother.
By Herbert Ssempogo
THE guardian of a four-year-old girl has hailed court for sentencing the man who defiled her child to 25 years in prison.
The girl, who was seven months when she was defiled in 2006, was abandoned by her mother.
The child needs urgent medical help due to complications she developed after the attack by 26-year-old Peter Ssebina, a casual labourer.
She routinely develops wounds and fever, and needs dippers to control the incessant flow of feacal matter and urine, according her aunt, Irene Namafafa.
Namafafa said the girl’s mother abandoned her at her grandmother’s home in Nalukolongo after the staff at Rubaga Hospital in Kampala said she would be treated when she was older.
“Being a single parent, I think she could not cope with the situation,†Namafafa said, adding that when the girl’s grandmother died, she was taken to live with other relatives in Butaleja district.
Assisted by the Uganda Transparency International, a local NGO, Namafafa last week brought the girl to Kampala to attend the court session where her attacker was sentenced.
“We wanted to hear the verdict first hand and also follow up several pledges made to assist the girl,†Namafafa said.
“I cannot support her. My earnings are meagre,†she added. Namafafa works as a waitress and lives in a two-roomed house.
Meanwhile, doctors at Mulago Hospital have offered to treat the girl free of charge. A doctor who declined to be named examined her and promised further diagnosis beginning May 11.
THE guardian of a four-year-old girl has hailed court for sentencing the man who defiled her child to 25 years in prison.
The girl, who was seven months when she was defiled in 2006, was abandoned by her mother.
The child needs urgent medical help due to complications she developed after the attack by 26-year-old Peter Ssebina, a casual labourer.
She routinely develops wounds and fever, and needs dippers to control the incessant flow of feacal matter and urine, according her aunt, Irene Namafafa.
Namafafa said the girl’s mother abandoned her at her grandmother’s home in Nalukolongo after the staff at Rubaga Hospital in Kampala said she would be treated when she was older.
“Being a single parent, I think she could not cope with the situation,†Namafafa said, adding that when the girl’s grandmother died, she was taken to live with other relatives in Butaleja district.
Assisted by the Uganda Transparency International, a local NGO, Namafafa last week brought the girl to Kampala to attend the court session where her attacker was sentenced.
“We wanted to hear the verdict first hand and also follow up several pledges made to assist the girl,†Namafafa said.
“I cannot support her. My earnings are meagre,†she added. Namafafa works as a waitress and lives in a two-roomed house.
Meanwhile, doctors at Mulago Hospital have offered to treat the girl free of charge. A doctor who declined to be named examined her and promised further diagnosis beginning May 11.