Court in Kampala has jailed a man for 45 years after being convicted of sodomising four male juveniles; two aged 8, one 9 and another 13 years old.
While sentencing Simon Twesigye alias Tadius, 27, High Court Judge Michael Elubu, explained that the convict is a sexual predator whose actions traumatized and had long-lasting effects on the victims.
Prosecution contended that Twesigye between 2016 and July 2019, performed a sexual act on the four male juveniles at Kamwokya Church Zone in Kampala District where he lived with the victims.
He was earning a living in the same zone by selling water, soda and passion fruit juice.
The court ruled that prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt that the four juveniles were below the age of fourteen years at the time.
The judge also dismissed Twesigye’s claims that it was a grudge between one of the victim’s sisters whom he denied a job thus framing him.
The judge also noted that it was the evidence that all the prosecution witnesses noted that the convict was arrested at a point when he was trying to escape which is not the conduct of an innocent person.
