Betty Mulekatete, 27, a resident of Kyampisi Village,Nagalama Subcounty, Mukono District is in trouble and being held at Nagalama Police after she was suspected to have stolen a 4-months-old baby.
According to Luke Owoyesigyire the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Mulekatete told her husband Umar Nsubuga that she was pregnant and due to deliver as she asked for permission to go to Kisoro and get better care by her family members.
In her statement however, the suspect told police that she developed complications and got a miscarriage, but feared the husband's wrath, and hatched a plan of stealing a friend's young baby.
It was on 12th July 2018 when Mulekatete convinced her close friend Monica Dusabe if she could help take care of the baby as the mother went for gardening and during her absence, snatched the baby.
However, on return Harera Kalodi and Monica Dusabe were struck by the disappearance of their baby and immediately opened up a case at Kisoro Police Station.
Mulekatete had the baby circumcised and went back home, but her husband wasn't convinced by the looks of the baby and decided to tip off the police authorities who swang into action and arrested the suspect.
It was upon interrogation that the suspect confessed to not being the biological mother of the baby and told police she had bought the child from the mother at a fee of 250000/- (two hundred and fifty thousand Uganda shillings).
She is currently detained at Nagalama Police Station vide CRB 125/2018 pending to be transported to Kisoro Police Station where she is to be arraigned to courts of law on charges on child stealing.
