22-YEAR-OLD WOMAN ARRESTED WITH STOLEN BABY IN MASINDI

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By Moses Andama

www.mknewslink.com

In Masindi—

Police in Masindi district are holding a 22-year-old woman for allegedly stealing a three-day-old baby boy from Masindi general hospital maternity ward.

The suspect identified herself as Beatrice Musiimenta, alias Nakazibwe, married to Peter Ssemakula, a hawker in Gulu City.

Musiimenta says she decided to steal a baby because of pressure from her husband, who has a child with a second wife, but denied claims that she was going to sacrifice the baby.

Hadijah Abiriya, the baby’s mother and a resident of Kapeeka Village in Kabango Town Council in Masindi district, narrates that the suspect has been in the maternity ward since Friday last week, claiming to be the caretaker of one of the expectant mothers.

She says on Sunday at around 7:00 p.m., the suspect requested to be given the baby, but they declined until at night, when they slept, and she disappeared with the baby on Monday morning at around 3 a.m.

Abdurauman Sharif says her wife Abiriya informed him about the theft of the baby and swiftly went to Masindi town searching for the suspected baby thief.

Abdurauman says that as much as Musiimenta pretended to have a patient in the hospital, it was not true, but she was there to hatch a plan to steal their baby.

He says that after tracing the baby thief in vain, police eventually arrested her from Masindi Taxi Park as she boarded to go to Kampala.

He thanked God for blessing them with a baby boy and asked God to bless all those who struggled to have their baby rescued.

Julius Allan Hakiza, the Albertine region police spokesperson, confirmed the incident, saying that the suspect is behind bars at Masindi CPS and will soon be produced to court.

‘’She was arrested boarding a taxi to Kampala, and currently we have her in our custody at Masindi Central Police Station and will soon be arraigned in courts of law.’’