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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34350,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34348\/revisions\/34350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}