A Ugandan woman identified as Annet Namat has been sentenced to two years in jail for forcefully feeding her stepdaughter menstrual blood, Afriupdate news reports.
Annet Namata was sentenced on Thursday at the Mukono courts after pleading guilty to the charges.
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In her verdict, magistrate Patience Koburunga noted that she had reduced Namata’s sentence from seven to two years since her guilty plea has saved the court time that would otherwise be spent on the case.
The magistrate also took into consideration the suspect’s request for leniency since she is a mother of three.
However, Namata’s husband, Yunus Lungu, was not satisfied with the verdict. He said she should have been jailed for a longer time.
“Let her serve her time and hopefully she may learn her lesson,” he said.
Namata was first delivered to the police by her husband in June after neighbours told him she had been mixing her menstrual blood with food before forcing the teenager to eat.
She told the court that her friends advised her to feed the child with menstrual blood to turn her into a lunatic.
Susan Mayanja, the Kitega village woman secretary, says although justice has been served, the sentence is very lenient.
“That sentence will only encourage other women to do the same thing knowing their sentences will not be heavy,” she said.
Details of the case are that on June 6, 2019 while at her marital home in Kitega village, Namata served her stepdaughter food mixed with her menstrual blood contrary to Section 171 of the penal code.
Its provides that “Any person who unlawfully or negligently does any act which is and which he or she knows or has reason to believe to be likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.”
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