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A 39-year old man has been arrested at
Aduku Police station in Apac District for
allegedly burying his five year old son
alive.
The suspect is said to have buried his
son Lazarus Ogwal in an anthill to keep
the child away from his nagging
stepmother who had allegedly threatened
to kill him.
Mr Tom Olomo, a resident of Akwon
village, Ongoceng parish in Aduku Sub-
county was arrested on Tuesday with his
wife, Ms Santa Adero, aged 59 years.
The child was discovered by a group of
women who were heading to the garden
Tuesday morning. It is said that they
heard a child crying in a nearby bush,
and when they looked around, they saw a
child in an anthill.
Upon removal, the child was still alive,
but looked feeble, malnourished and his
skin had begun to look like the soil of an
anthill.
The matter was then reported to the LC1
of Akwon village, Mr Boniface Opoo, who
informed police.
According to the police statement, the
suspect confessed that he put his son in
a pit six days ago, to save him from his
new wife Adero who had warned that she
did not want to see any child at their
home, since she was childless.
It is said that Mr Olomo’s first wife, Ms
Dorcus Acen, deserted the family in
January this year to get married to
another man in Chawente Sub-county,
Apac District.
“I have been living a single life with our
son until last month when I got another
wife called Santa Adero, but she has been
complaining that she doesn’t want the
child of another woman living at our
home,” Mr Olomo said.
He noted that when his new wife had just
started complaining, he used to take the
child and hide him in the bush whenever
he was leaving home, because he feared
the child could be harmed.
The officer in charge Child and Family
Protection Unit at Aduku Police Station,
Ms Ketty Oroma, confirmed the arrest,
adding that the suspects would be
transferred to Apac Central Police Station
on Wednesday and charged with
attempted murder.
In August this year, police in Amolatar
District arrested a 50-year-old man for
burying his wife alive following a
domestic brawl.
The suspect reportedly stabbed his wife
Ms Betty Apio with a kitchen knife several
times, to ascertain she was dead before
tucking her away in a pit.
Mr John Bosco Okwir, a resident of Ader
village in Omito parish, Adyel Division in
Lira Municipality, reportedly first tried to
strangle Ms Apio. After squeezing her
throat for some time and realising she
was not dying, he then picked a knife and
stabbed her several times before burying
her.
Source: jamii forums