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A 39-year old man has been arrested at Aduku Police station in Apac District for allegedly burying his five year old son alive.
The
suspect is said to have buried his son Lazarus Ogwal in an anthill to
keep the child away from his nagging stepmother who had allegedly
threatened to kill him.
Mr
Tom Olomo, a resident of Akwon village, Ongoceng parish in Aduku
Sub-county was arrested on Tuesday with his wife, Ms Santa Adero, aged
59 years.
The
child was discovered by a group of women who were heading to the garden
Tuesday morning. It is said that they heard a child crying in a nearby
bush, and when they looked around, they saw a child in an anthill.
Upon
removal, the child was still alive, but looked feeble, malnourished and
his skin had begun to look like the soil of an anthill.
The matter was then reported to the LC1 of Akwon village, Mr Boniface Opoo, who informed police.
According
to the police statement, the suspect confessed that he put his son in a
pit six days ago, to save him from his new wife Adero who had warned
that she did not want to see any child at their home, since she was
childless.
It
is said that Mr Olomo’s first wife, Ms Dorcus Acen, deserted the family
in January this year to get married to another man in Chawente
Sub-county, Apac District.
“I
have been living a single life with our son until last month when I got
another wife called Santa Adero, but she has been complaining that she
doesn’t want the child of another woman living at our home,” Mr Olomo
said.
He
noted that when his new wife had just started complaining, he used to
take the child and hide him in the bush whenever he was leaving home,
because he feared the child could be harmed.
The
officer in charge Child and Family Protection Unit at Aduku Police
Station, Ms Ketty Oroma, confirmed the arrest, adding that the suspects
would be transferred to Apac Central Police Station on Wednesday and
charged with attempted murder.
In
August this year, police in Amolatar District arrested a 50-year-old
man for burying his wife alive following a domestic brawl.
The
suspect reportedly stabbed his wife Ms Betty Apio with a kitchen knife
several times, to ascertain she was dead before tucking her away in a
pit.
Mr
John Bosco Okwir, a resident of Ader village in Omito parish, Adyel
Division in Lira Municipality, reportedly first tried to strangle Ms
Apio. After squeezing her throat for some time and realising she was not
dying, he then picked a knife and stabbed her several times before
burying her.
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