A couple spent the night in the cells at Kamuli central police station for allegedly causing the death of their six-year-old son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The suspects are Godfrey Musenero and his wife, Viola Namwebya, both residents of Bususwa village, in Nabuwigulu sub-county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were picked up on Wednesday in connection to the death of their six-year-old son, Idhi Ekiritoyo. The minor’s body was recovered by residents from a shallow grave behind the suspect’s house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Residents intervened to find the whereabouts of the minor when they spent two days seeing him outside the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They broke into the couple’s house where they first sighted a two-year-old girl tied up, whereas, Ekiritoyo was missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Residents ganged up against the couple forcing them to confess that they had buried him in a shallow grave behind the house. The residents alerted the police, which inspected the scene of the crime and arrested the suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The couple is accused of starving their two children and locking them up in the house, which is suspected to have resulted in Ekiritoyo’s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Busoga North Police Spokesperson, Michael Kasadha, says that the suspects face two counts of child neglect and murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He says that the couple was fond of starving and beating up their children unsparingly, prompting the intervention of officers from the Police Child and Family Protection Unit-CFPU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The unit teamed up with well-wishers to donate food and other useful items to support the family, but the couple sold off the food relief and continued starving the minors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Musenero has denied the allegations levelled against him, saying that the child died of unidentified sickness and they only buried him quietly for lack of funds to organize a decent funeral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A couple spent the night in the cells at Kamuli central police station for allegedly causing the death of their six-year-old son. The suspects are Godfrey Musenero and his wife, Viola Namwebya, both residents of Bususwa village, in Nabuwigulu sub-county. They were picked up on Wednesday in connection to the death of their six-year-old son, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":34349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[8171,7619],"class_list":["post-34348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-godfrey-musenero","tag-kamuli-district"],"yoast_head":"\n