Police at Mijwala in Sembabule district are hunting for a heartless mother for dumping her 2 day old baby in a pit latrine.<\/p>\n
The toddler whose mother has not yet been identified was found in a pit latrine belonging to Paddy Walakira a resident of Kanyumba \u2013 Lwamatabazi Village, Mijwala Sub County in Sembabule district.<\/p>\n
According to Ignatius Lukandwa they were alerted by a child who had gone to the pit latrine who heard the baby girl crying from the pit.<\/p>\n
Lukandwa says that they were shocked to find out that a baby believed to be about 2 days old had been dumped in a pit latrine calling police that retrieved the toddler from the pit.<\/p>\n
Noah Sserunjogi the Southern Region Police Spokesperson has confirmed the incident saying that police with the help of residents they have managed to retrieve the baby form the pit.<\/p>\n
He says that police has taken the victim to hospital for treatment as a hunt for her mother goes on adding that she is likely to be charged with child neglect when police investigations are completed.<\/p>\n
Sserunjogi has however, raised concern over increasing cases of child neglect in the region.<\/p>\n
He blames the rise of such cases to parents especially fathers abandoning their parental responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police at Mijwala in Sembabule district are hunting for a heartless mother for dumping her 2 day old baby in a pit latrine. The toddler whose mother has not yet been identified was found in a pit latrine belonging to Paddy Walakira a resident of Kanyumba \u2013 Lwamatabazi Village, Mijwala Sub County in Sembabule district. According to Ignatius Lukandwa they were alerted by a child who had gone to the pit latrine who heard the baby girl crying from the pit. Lukandwa says that they were shocked to find out that a baby believed to be about 2 days old had been dumped in a pit latrine calling police that retrieved the toddler from the pit. Noah Sserunjogi the Southern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":20233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}