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Janet Amuge, the Officer in Charge of the Child and Family Protection Unit at Kaberamaido Police Station, says they received information around 4:30 PM on Sunday regarding a child found crying alone in a nearby bush.
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Kaberamaido Police are stuck with a three months baby girl
believed to have been dumped by her mother. The baby was found abandoned in Arabaka
Cell- A in Kaberamaido Sub County.
Janet Amuge, the Officer
in Charge of the Child and Family Protection Unit at Kaberamaido Police
Station, says they received information around 4:30 PM on Sunday regarding a
child found crying alone in a nearby bush.
She says the child was discovered by children who
informed a passersby who later ran to the Police station after finding
that the child had no caretaker. Amuge suspects that the child was born
outside wedlock and the mother decided to dump it after failing to care for it.
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Amuge is worried of the baby’s health condition and
care since police don’t have home care services for such children.
Police has recorded a case of child abandonment under SDR15/12/01/2020.
Some residents told our reporter that the child was
heard crying in the bush around 1:00PM but they ignored thinking that she was with her
mother.
Teresa Akello, a neighbor said that they managed save the child
when children took it upon themselves to find out the child had cried
for long.
“She had taken more than three hours in the bush by the time
we picked her and handed over to police”, she said.
Emmanuel Eumu
Freelancer