{"id":10367,"date":"2025-10-16T17:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=10367"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:04:57","slug":"kibaale-pastor-remanded-over-aggravated-defilement-of-16-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2025\/10\/16\/kibaale-pastor-remanded-over-aggravated-defilement-of-16-year-old-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Kibaale Pastor Remanded Over Aggravated Defilement of 16-Year-Old Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Edward Byamukama<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A 35-year-old pastor has been remanded to Kibaale Government Prison by the Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court on charges of aggravated defilement involving a 16-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>He will remain in custody until November 18, 2025, as investigations continue.<br \/>\nThe case was heard before Her Worship Nazifa Namayanja, who identified the accused as Aryatumamya Ruhanga, a Munyankole by tribe and resident of Buguma, Nkenda Parish, in Karama Sub- County, Kibaale District.<\/p>\n<p>Aryatumamya is a religious leader at Heavenly Ministry, a church located in the same area.<br \/>\nAccording to court proceedings, Aryatumamya had been harboring underage girls at his church for purposes of sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>He is accused of impregnating a 16-year-old girl who later gave birth to a baby boy via cesarean section at Mityana Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The child was reportedly named after the accused.<br \/>\nIt was revealed that the pastor used his position of religious authority to abuse young girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Edward Byamukama A 35-year-old pastor has been remanded to Kibaale Government Prison by the Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court on charges of aggravated defilement involving a 16-year-old girl. He will remain in custody until November 18, 2025, as investigations continue. The case was heard before Her Worship Nazifa Namayanja, who identified the accused as Aryatumamya Ruhanga, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10374,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions\/10374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}