BY ISAAC MUMBERE
Four people from Kyamakungu Village, Kyondo Sub-County in Bukonzo County East, Kasese District have been arrested on allegations of aiding an abortion and dumping a fetus in a neighbour’s latrine.
It is alleged that the fetus, believed to be about six months, was dumped in the latrine.
Following the incident, the police were alerted who immediately rushed to the scene and the latrine was demolished to retrieve the fetus.
By press time, the body was still at Kyondo Sub-county headquarters before being taken to Bwera General Hospital mortuary for a postmortem examination.
The Woman District Councillor representing Kyondo Sub-county, Hon. Aisha Kabugho, confirmed the arrest, explaining that the arrested persons are a 15- year-old girl suspected to have been pregnant, her mother, father and a brother.
Hon. Kabugho warned the parents especially husbands against the practice of being negligent by abandoning families.
The Kyamakungu Village Health Team member, Alice Muhindo, confirmed that the residents who had seen the girl pregnant, were shocked after witnessing the incident.
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