A 40-year-old woman in Fort Portal has been arrested for allegedly defiling an 8-year-old boy. The suspect, Mary Kemigisa is a resident of Kisumbi A cell in East Division in Fort Portal.

The officer in charge of criminal investigations Kabalore district, Godliver Twinomugisha said Kemigisa is locked up for defiling the minor on June 3.

The boy’s mother (names withheld) says on the fateful day she received a phone call from her sister notifying her that the suspect had defiled her son who needed urgent medical attention. According to Asiimwe, she dashed home to find out what had happened.

“I was not at home, I had gone to visit my councillor who’d got an accident who was admitted at Buhinga hospital when I got a phone call that I should rush home because my son had been defiled….The boy and his colleagues had gone to fetch water – that is when she snatched him and took him to her bedroom and defiled him. After he came and told my sister and then my sister told me everything…I called my son and asked him if Kemigisa has been using him and he said it was the first time.”

Asiimwe say that although her son was given drugs at Buhinga regional referral hospital to stop any possible STD infection, she isn’t sure about his safety.

“I was told that they will call me after investigations, but I don’t know when that will be,” she said.

Asiimwe says her son her son has started returning home from school before the usual time, saying he is feeling pain.