{"id":711394,"date":"2019-09-27T09:14:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/27\/ugandan-who-fed-stepchild-menstrual-blood-jailed\/"},"modified":"2019-09-27T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:14:07","slug":"ugandan-who-fed-stepchild-menstrual-blood-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/27\/ugandan-who-fed-stepchild-menstrual-blood-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan who fed stepchild menstrual blood &#8216;jailed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-reactid=\".1jt1gpvt1me.3.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1:$post-5d8da8d7d18da806558b3898.0.3.0.0:$post_0\">A Ugandan woman has been sentenced to jail for two years for forcefully feeding her stepdaughter menstrual blood, the privately-owned Daily Monitor newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1jt1gpvt1me.3.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1:$post-5d8da8d7d18da806558b3898.0.3.0.0:$post_1\">The woman, Annet Namata, had pleaded guilty to the charge and asked for leniency on the grounds that she was a mother of three children, the newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1jt1gpvt1me.3.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1:$post-5d8da8d7d18da806558b3898.0.3.0.0:$post_2\">The magistrate in Mukono reportedly said that she had reduced the sentence from seven years to two years because the woman had \u201csaved the court\u2019s time\u201d by pleading guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened three months ago in Kitega village, 46km (28 miles) east of the capital, Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband is reported to have been unhappy with the sentence, wanting his wife to be jailed for longer.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda\u2019s weekly newspaper Observer had last month reported that the woman was\u00a0handed over to the police by her husband who was alerted\u00a0about the incident by villagers.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper also reported that the woman confessed to have acted out of anger because of the preferential care that her husband was giving to the child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ugandan woman has been sentenced to jail for two years for forcefully feeding her stepdaughter menstrual blood, the privately-owned Daily Monitor newspaper reports. 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