Police Hunts for a Woman Who Injected her 6-year-old Stepson with Paraffin Following a Quarrel with her Husband.

Mariam Namukose a resident of Bukyaye village, Nakalama sub-county in Iganga district injected Arnold Mumbya with paraffin after accusing her husband Isaac Bogere of failing to buy necessities for their one-year-old daughter instead of giving them to the victim.

According to Bogere, she took advantage of the absence of neighbours to inject Mumbya with paraffin using a syringe used on cattle and other livestock.

“I had just gone to the neighbourhood to buy some things only to come back and find my son lying on the bed crying because of sharp pain in his backside,” he said.

Bogere said Mumbya told him that he had been injected with paraffin by Namukose who ordered him not to narrate his ordeal to anyone or else she would kill him.

Mumbya had earlier complained to his father about having mild fever and he was given some tablets by Namukose to swallow in the morning.

Bogere said his wife was bitter after he returned home the previous day with a new shirt he bought for Mumbya.

“She said that it was time she taught me a lesson as to why I should continue loving a bastard that was abandoned by its mother,' he said.

Isaac Bogere the father of the victim and Mariam Namukose (inset) who is accused of the doing the deed. Photo by Moses Bikala

Mumbya’s mother left him behind a year ago after she developed misunderstandings with Bogere.

Abdu Kisambira the LC1 secretary for defence, claimed that Namukose has always tortured her stepson that she frequently castigated for wetting the bed and accused of being a glutton.

“She would always bark at the boy saying he likes eating all the time besides caning him,” he said.

Namukose managed to flee after a group of locals armed with sticks and stones attempted to lynch her.

Locals rushed Mumbya to Iganga Main Hospital with swollen body parts as a result of the injection.

A doctor attending to the victim and preferred anonymity, said the injuries suffered are life-threatening and that the boy is likely to be disabled in case he survives.

“It was only luck that they realised quickly that the boy had been injected with paraffin, otherwise, he would be dead by now in case there was further delay,” he said.

He said part of the boy’s buttocks will have to be cut off since the tissue had been infiltrated by paraffin rendering it dead.

Godfrey Kalekyezi the acting Iganga District Police Commander Iganga said Namukose will appear before a court to answer charges of attempted murder in case she is arrested.

Kalekyezi appealed to members of the public to volunteer information about her whereabouts to ensure that justice prevails.

Abdu Mukooti the senior probation officer for Iganga expressed concern over the increase in cases of child abuse since the start of the year.

Mukooti said a total of 143 cases of child abuse had been reported at various Police stations across the district since the start of the year.

The majority of the child abuse cases reported are of torture and defilement of children below the age of 10.

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