On Monday, September 5, Uganda Police announced that a 22-year-old mother who was seen on camera abusing her two-year-old daughter also has three other children with three different men.
After a video emerged showing Dorothy Nabulime abusing her child in an event that took place at Busula A in Katikamu Sub County in Luweero District, she was detained on Saturday, September 3.
The mother was seen beating her naked toddler with a pair of slippers in the one minute, 14 second footage.
Nabulime is not about to stop the thrashing even after the mother beats the two-year-old until she slides from a basin and water starts spilling out.
From the moment the infant is on the ground until she returns to the basin, she continuously beats the child with a slipper, hitting it in the arms, head, legs, back, and hands. Nabulime ignored the infant’s cries for pity, nevertheless.
The video, which was captured by the worried neighbour and posted on social media, has now sparked widespread outrage and condemnation from the general public.
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Further investigations, according to police spokesperson Fred Enanga’s statement on Monday, September 5, have shown that Nabulime is the father of three children, who are now four, two, and four months old and all born to separate males.
“She is a mother of three children from three separate relationships and could have been affected for having three failed relationships. Her first born of four years was from her relationship with Christopher Kivumbi, the second born of two years that she was victimizing was from a second relationship with a man she has refused to disclose. The third child of four months is from her third relationship with Isaac Male,” said police spokesperson, Enanga.
“We believe that her anger towards the two year old child is transferred from the broken relationship with the father in the second relationship whom she has concealed. We believe this because the other two children of four years and four months are treated very well by her unlike the two year old girl from the second relationship.”
Enanga claimed that once the video of the suspect failing to provide the child the love and compassion that is expected of a mother went viral, authorities became concerned.
He mentioned that Nabulime will be charged with torture and will appear in court in Luweero following her detention.
“The victim was examined and there are no grave internal injuries from prolonged acts of beating from the mother. Our child and family protection unit have got her new friends to play with.” he said
The police spokesperson added that the hunt for the identity of the father of the tortured child is on to see if he can be reunited with his daughter or the child can be taken to a safe place for custody.
“If we find it is not safe to reunite the child with the father, we will find alternatives of identifying a shelter home for this two year old victim”
Enanga noted that police is also hunting for Isaac Male, the father of the four months child with whom the suspect has been living, who he said is currently on the run.
Police say neighbours informed them that the torture has been ongoing for at least a year and they want to interrogate the step dad to answer as to why he never reported to authorities.
“Male Isaac is wanted because evidence we have shows this girl victim was being tortured for that entire period of about one year he was staying with the lady and as a step father he never intervened at whatever stage when the step daughter was being tortured.”
Enanga said when the video went viral, Male escaped from the village but noted the hunt for him is still on.
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