• Today: Sunday 21 Dec 2025

Police in Kibuku district have arrested a 49-year-old mother for allegedly whipping her 10-year-old child to death.

27 January, 2023
897


 

The suspect has been identified as Tolophina Kanyi, a resident of Saala cell, Kirika sub County.

Samuel Semewo, the acting Bukedi North Regional Police Spokesperson says that on Thursday January 26, at around 8:45 pm, Kaanyi beat her son Badru Kuuna for allegedly stealing a neighbor’s Memory Card.

According to the police spokesperson, Kanyi tied her son with a rope and started beating him up, until the boy lost consciousness. He was rushed to a nearby clinic where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Semewo says that Kanyi was intercepted at the Clinic by neighbors who informed the police, leading to her arrest.

Comment