A male lecturer at Kyambogo University is wanted by the police over aggravated defilement of a 16-year-old visually impaired girl.
According to the police spokesperson, Fred Enanga, police are seeking public help in locating Dr Lawrence Eron, a 56-year-old senior lecturer at Kyambogo University and a Dean of the Faculty of Special Needs and Rehabilitation on allegations of defilement.
According to police, the victim is a student in a secondary school in Mukono District.
Enanga says the suspect is wanted because he absconded police bond on December 14, 2023, and for the last one month, he has been in hiding.
According to police, the incident happened when Dr Eron travelled as a caretaker of four students including the victim to Nairobi in Kenya for a conference and they returned on October 12.
Enanga added that so, because the suspect had his car parked at Entebbe, he offered to give a lift to the four students which was fine because they felt comfortable with him and he first dropped the two students from Gulu University at Namayiba Bus Park as they proceeded to Gulu and he went on to drop the third student at Kyambogo University and he remained with the victim.
Enanga says the victim was in the car at night with the lecturer so they drove together up to around 10:20pm from Kyambogo, and then she requested water, they branched at a supermarket but after she took the water, she fell unconscious and by the time she woke up she felt inflammations and injuries on her private parts.
The following morning, her maternal uncle drove her back to her school in Mukono where she revealed her ordeal to a senior woman teacher who alerted the head teacher and the case was reported at Mukono police station.
Police revealed that the victim was then immediately put on post-rape treatment and police obtained DNA samples picked from the suspect’s car that matched the specimen samples which were found on the body of the victim which showed that there was proof of sexual intercourse.
