Peninah Kukunda, who tortured her stepson has been remanded to Luzira prison.
Kukunda, who says works with Africell, was last week arrested for torturing her stepson (names withheld because he is a minor), beating and cutting him, until the boy escaped and reached the police station to seek redress.
“I have cried until my heart ached,” said a neighbor who shares a compound with Kukunda who lives with her husband Yonah Musiimenta, who has always been told by neighbours to take the child away before he is killed, in vain.
It is alleged that a guard at Kukunda’s home was the first to report child abuse case with Buwaate police who did nothing after her husband Yona influenced the police officers on the station to ignore the complaint.
The suspect however didn’t restrain herself from battering the child until her arrest last Wednesday.
Following Kakunda’s arrest, her case file was sanctioned and later taken to Luzira Prison.
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