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Ugandan Maid in Child Assault Video Receives 4 Years in Jail | Is the Sentence Appropriate?

Maid Abuses Child
Maid Abuses Child

The Ugandan maid at the centre of the released video showing her mercilessly beating an 18 month old girl has been sentenced to four years in jail by a court in Kampala.

Chief Magistrate Lilian Buchan told the culprit, 22 year old Jolly Tumuhirwe that she had committed an ‘unjustifiable and inexcusable’ crime, before going ahead to slap her with the four year sentence.

Tumuhirwe had earlier pled guilty to the charge of torture and faced fifteen years in jail.

Considering the severity of the action she was caught carrying out some people might feel she got off lucky with this sentence she has been slapped with.

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