Five months, deflowered and lost of innocence, is something that left me sleepless and in tears. How a forty year old man with eleven children, could force himself onto a five months baby, tearing it to gross bits of virginal tears and wounds, is something am still pondering about.
The scenario of lost innocence and yet even more pain, in the fact that the baby could not report or understand what had been done to her, runs in my mind. But even more traumatizing is that the beast that did it is out in the village, released by the police canvassed by the defiler’s relatives and unfortunately the child protection project.
How could that happen, is what I tell of now. The parents of little Siima are poor villagers and can not afford much. They live dependent and have little influence on issues in the community they live in.
On the other hand the defiler has a family relation, that can afford some money to make a cheap settlement enough to handle the treatment of the little toddler, but this may cure the virginal tears not the damage caused psychologically. Siima’s mother retrieved the police statement to ensure the treatment of her baby and unfortunately the release of the beast, but her tears match the tear in her daughter’s private parts.
In Uganda defilement ranks high and is mostly unpunished due to incidents such as that which I have mentioned. Money talks more than the pain; corruption gains terminate the reality of the problem and its resulting outcome.
