Fresh details have answered the question of why a 15-year-old girl, Shanita Nalumansi, killed her six weeks old baby Ezra Bogere and dumped the corpse in a pit latrine. Nalumansi who is a resident of Nansana East A I zone, Nansana Municipality, in Wakiso district was apprehended over the weekend after she feigned the disappearance of her baby.
Police were informed about Bogere’s disappearance by locals after conducting a fruitless search. However, residents became suspicious after seeing the baby’s clothes in a latrine and they decided to inform the police about the new developments.
When police arrived and grilled Nalumansi, she confessed to having killed her baby and dumped her in a latrine. Assistant Superintendent of Police, Luke Owoyesigyire, the deputy Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson, said they secured the scene and later on retrieved the toddler’s body.
“The scene was secured and the body of the victim was retrieved. Upon further interrogation, the teen mother admitted to having dumped her baby in the latrine, after he was rejected and she had failed to provide for him. It is a heart-breaking story of a poor child who was victimized by a poor biological teen mother,” police said.
Now the fresh details show Nalumansi’s impregnator was a relative who denied responsibility something that prompted her to kill the baby. Nalumansi added that after giving birth, her baby was rejected by the alleged father, who claimed he wanted DNA proof.
Senior Commissioner of Police -SCP Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson, said the teen mother was practicing hairdressing at a local salon. In order to solve the whole puzzle, Enanga said detectives are tracing the alleged defiler and father to the Child victim so that he can be charged with aggravated defilement.
“A separate case file of Aggravated Defilement has been opened. All teen mothers experiencing challenges are advised to seek help from a number of shelters and babies’ homes. The teen suspect will be tried under the Juvenile Criminal System,” Enanga said.
Police have said factors such as social-cultural, economic, and family challenges play a part in high rates of teenage pregnancy. Nalumansi’s woes have been described as the basis for sexual abuse and pregnancy. Enanga has called upon society and most importantly parents, to be aware of the factors that increase the likelihood of teen pregnancies.
