Drunken woman squashes own child to death

Isaac Nuwagaba                                                                           

A woman was on Tuesday arrested at Kabale Police Station over the alleged murder of her baby girl on the Jubilee Independence Day.
 
Loy Tukamushaba, 30, was arrested after she was found sleeping with the dead body of her two-month old daughter next to her at her home.
 
Tukamushaba is a resident of Bukora village, Bukora parish, Kitumba Sub-county in Kabale District.
 
It is alleged that the suspect started drinking herself silly in the morning hours of Tuesday as she celebrated 50 years of Uganda’s self-rule from the British with friends.
 
She is reported to have drunk till noon when she remembered that she had left her kid at home and quickly left to breastfeed her little girl in a stupor.
 
She was later found snoring by her neighbours with the dead child besides her.
 
The Police rescued her from angry residents who reportedly were preparing to lynch her accusing her of strangling the toddler.
 
Police whisked her to Kabale Central Police Station pending investigations into the matter.
 
Tukamushaba however denied that she killed her own daughter but admitted that she accidentally suffocated the little girl to death when she, in her drunken state, slept on top of her.
 
Elly Maate, the south-south western regional spokesperson, said that investigations into the murder are ongoing but the postmortem was underway to establish the cause of death.