Police have confirmed arresting a woman captured on video assaulting a child.
The incident happened at Busula village, in Luweero District. The suspect has been identified as Nabulime Dorothy aged 22, a mother of three children, and a resident of the same village.
In the video, Nabulime is seen mercilessly on multiple occasions hitting the child aged approximately two years as she forced him to take a bath on his own.
In the video, it is visibly explicit that because of the child’s age, he could not bath on his own, but this did not matter to the angry woman who kept assaulting the child with what appeared to be a rubber shoe.
“Stand up and take a bath on your own,” the woman roared to the minor sitting in the basin as she severally beat him. At this point, the boy slipped off the basic and fell on the ground while guarding self from the beatings.
“You see you are now pouring the water as it is you who fetches it,” Nabulime shouted as the crying minor.
Even when he hit the head on the ground after falling from the basin, the woman continued to assault him as she rudely ordered him back into the basin. “Stand and get back to the basin and bath yourself properly,” she rudely ordered him while doubling the beating on the head and other parts of the body.
The child’s pleas for mercy hit a dead end as Nabulime adamantly ignored them but instead maintained the beating for several other minutes while threatening to continue teaching the minor a bitter lesson.
It is not clear who recorded the video footage but when the clip found its way on social media,
Ugandans asked police to reign-in and have the suspect immediately arrested.
Indeed, on Saturday evening, Ignatius Otong, the Savanah Regional Police Commander confirmed that the suspect had been arrested and temporarily detained at Busula Police Post before whisking her to Luweero Central Police Station where she is currently detained.
He said he is following the matter himself.
The case of torture under SD Ref: 06/03/09/2022. We have learned that the suspect has been charged with among others torture.
Police has since handed the victim to his close relatives pending further investigations into the matter.