Tag Archives: child

Kibuku, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kibuku district have arrested a 49-year-old mother for allegedly whipping her 10-year-old child to death. The suspect has been identified as Tolophina Kanyi, a resident of Saala cell, Kirika sub County. Samuel Semewo, the acting Bukeddi North Regional Police Spokesperson said that on …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Arua has arrested a woman identified as Betty Adakuru for allegedly offering her 3-year-old child to a businesswoman after borrowing sh300,000. According to police, the suspect reportedly borrowed the money from Christine Lekuru, a resident of  Kirabucell, in Arua Central Division to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Coronavirus has multiple possible routes of transmission including from mother to the baby while still in the womb, researchers have established. In a study whose results were published in the global science journal – JAMA on Thursday evening, researchers at Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police is holding a teacher, head teacher and director of Home Kindergarten School and Day Care in Busibante Najeera in Kira municipality in a case of alleged murder of a pupil and negligence. They are set to be charged for the death of six-year-old …

Los Angeles, United States | AFP | An 11-year-old boy in Arizona reportedly shot his grandmother in the back of the head and then turned the gun on himself, apparently because he was upset at being asked to clean his room. Yvonne Woodard, 65, was shot on Saturday in her …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mothers who can’t wait to hold their babies until they are actually born can now fulfill their greatest dream with the help of 3D-printed, life-size models of their unborn children based on ultrasound imagery. Embryo 3D is not the world’s first company to offer parents …

Brussels, Belgium | AFP | Boys account for nearly a third of online child sex abuse images and often suffer the worst horrors, a new study revealed Tuesday, suggesting a greater problem than first thought. Interpol and Ecpat, a Bangkok-based international organisation fighting child sexual abuse, produced the findings after reviewing …

Kampala, Uganda | MGLSD | The Uganda Government has called on international partners to aggressively implement strategies that safeguard children against violence so as to enable the young generation achieve their full potential. The Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development Janat Balunzi Mukwaya observed that ending violence against children is …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | A housemaid was sentenced to three years imprisonment on Wednesday for attempting to infect her boss’s two-year-old baby with HIV/AIDS. Jemima Nasifa alias Tumukunde Zainabu a Rwandan, pleaded guilty to the offence of doing a negligent act likely to spread infection or disease, before Kampala’s …

Munich, Germany | AFP | At least 547 boys at a German Catholic choir school suffered sexual or physical abuse in what victims have likened to “prison, hell or a concentration camp”, said an investigator releasing a final report Tuesday on one of the country’s worst such scandals. The Regensburger …