Police in
Masindi are holding a 24-year-old woman on allegations of defiling five boys.
Police has identified the suspect as Scovia Nyamusana, a resident of Kamurasi cell, Nyangahya
division in Masindi district.
The victims
whose names have been withheld because they are juveniles are aged between 8 and
11 years and are all residents of the same area.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Julius
Hakiza, the Albertine region spokesperson says the suspect locked the
five boys in her room on Wednesday afternoon before she defiled them after she
promised to give them money.
According to
Hakiza, the victims were rescued by neighbors who alerted area local leaders that Nyamusana had locked her self together with the five boys in her room.
The local council authorities led by the Defense secretary Haruna Mukasa rushed to the house where the children had been locked up by the woman.
ASP Hakiza says
Nyamusana was found red-handed performing the dubious act with the young
children.
She was
immediately arrested and whisked to Masindi Central police station where she is
currently being detained.
The five boys
have been taken for medical examination to ascertain whether they have been
infected with any sexually transmitted diseases.
Hakiza says
the woman will be charged with aggravated defilement once police investigations
are completes.