DAY-OLD BABY RESCUED AFTER SPENDING A NIGHT IN PIT LATRINE

BY mknewslink
IN KAMPALA—-

Police has rescued a one day old baby after spending a night in a pit latrine in Bulonda village, Kajjansi in Wakiso District.

Mr Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, said the baby born on Monday morning was dumped in a latrine by its mother, Rose Nanyanzi, at 6pm on the same day.

He said the residents became suspicious and informed the police yesterday at 6am when Nanyanzi could not reveal where she had put the baby she had delivered the previous day.

Ms Stella Ayo Odongo the executive director of Uganda Child Rights NGO Forum recently cited factors such as; lack of sexuality and reproductive education, unchecked anger by parents, incest, vulnerability, and deprivation of resources as well as cultural practices as being the reasons why mothers dump children.