{"id":2456,"date":"2021-02-25T08:27:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T08:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:23","slug":"woman-murders-newly-born-baby-secretly-burries-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/02\/25\/woman-murders-newly-born-baby-secretly-burries-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Murders Newly Born Baby, Secretly Burries Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By John Bosco Tugume<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police in Kikuube district on Wednesday exhumed the body of a newly born baby boy that was allegedly killed and buried by the mother in Maya A- village, Igwanjura parish in Kabwoya sub-county.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s reported that on the 10<sup>th<\/sup> of February 2021, Maureen Nyakato, a resident of the same place reportedly gave birth at night to a baby boy, strangled the baby to death and later secretly buried the body the following morning.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Buryahika, the LC3 chairman for Kabwoya sub-county admits the incident saying Nyakato was arrested following a tipoff to police from the village chairman.<\/p>\n<p>A police official who preferred to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak to media said police detectives including a pathologist conducted a postmortem on the body and later re-buried it.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Nyakato reportedly strangled the baby after separating with the husband.<\/p>\n<p>Buryahika has condemned the act saying it was uncalled for since as children have the right to life. He says domestic violence is on the rise and costing lives.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, a woman identified as Scovia Asiimwe in Kyakirubi village in Bugambe Sub also killed her newly born baby with a rat poison and buried the body after failing to identify the father.<\/p>\n<p>Asiimwe reportedly approached two different men with each denying responsibility for the pregnancy and hence killed the baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Bosco Tugume Police in Kikuube district on Wednesday exhumed the body of a newly born baby boy that was allegedly killed and buried by the mother in Maya A- village, Igwanjura parish in Kabwoya sub-county. It\u2019s reported that on the 10th of February 2021, Maureen Nyakato, a resident of the same place reportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3499,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}