A courtroom in Uganda sentenced a teenage girl to a six-hour jail time period for killing her rapist father.
It might be one of the crucial uncommon sentences delivered within the nation, however the case was simply as uncommon because it was heartrending.
The Masaka High Court presided over by Lady Justice Margaret Oumo Oguli, Monday heard that 18-year-old woman killed her father on May eight, after he had molested her.
It was not the primary time he was doing so. The 58-year-old man had been molesting the daughter repeatedly from the time she was 13 years old.
Prosecution led by Peter Mugisha advised courtroom that the convict violently killed her father utilizing a knife and a panga after the deceased carried out s3xual acts in opposition to her.
Mr. Mugisha, nevertheless, requested courtroom to offer her a most sentence which requires dying, saying the act she carried out was unlawful.
His argument was that she ought to have reported the matter to police and never killed him.
Defence led by Mr. Edward Kikirengoma, nevertheless, didn't agree with the State, saying the act the daddy did to his daughter was condemned, particularly in Buganda Kingdom.
Mr. Kikirengoma advised courtroom that the convict wanted to take cost of her life since she had change into uninterested in her father's merciless acts, including that courtroom ought to look into the situation of the woman as she was six months pregnant, with the kid of her father.
As acknowledged by Mr. Kikirengoma, it was "revealed that as she was sleeping in the home, she didn't know that her mom, 56, had gone out; her father learnt that his spouse wasn't in the home and got here into her mattress and molested her. Since they have been dwelling in a one-room rented home, the daddy took benefit of his personal kids".
It emerged that the person had additionally impregnated his three different daughters.
Defence due to this fact requested courtroom to offer the killer a lenient sentence.