A KAMPALA NURSE IS IN POLICE CUSTODY FOR SELLING A DEAD FOETUS TO A BARREN WOMAN FOR USE TO FAKE A PREGNANCY.

Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City.

The Police in Uganda have arrested a 29 year old Kampala nurse for allegedly selling a dead foetus to a woman who had faked pregnancy, and presented the dead child to her husband.

Shadia Nakanwagi, a resident of Kamwokya Central Zone, was arrested on Tuesday from a clinic where she works at Mulage Hospital, Kampala, following reports that she had helped Maria Gorretti Nantongo obtain the dead child.

Nantongo was arrested last weekend at her husband’s home in Makindye, a Kampala suburb, where she had taken the corpse of the baby, claiming to have delivered a baby, who had died soon after birth.

Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Henry Kalulu, said Nantongo had confessed to the police that she bought the corpse for Ushs 230,000. “Our investigations established that Nantongo went to the nurse with intent to purchase a baby, but the nurse only had a six months foetus”.

Mr. Kalulu said Nantongo wanted to use the dead baby to prove to her husband that she was fertile, but had a miscarriage. He suspected that the nurse got the foetus from an abortion process.

However, Nakanwagi, after being interrogated by the police denied selling the foetus or having any knowledge about it. She admitted that Nantongo had asked her for help, as she wanted to prove to her husband that she had actually delivered a child.

“Nantongo told me that she needed something to show to her husband that she had either had a miscarriage or had given birth to a baby who later died”, the nurse told the police.

The nurse claimed she performed an ultrasound scanning on Nantongo, but found no signs of pregnancy and advised her to return to her husband.

Both the women are currently detained at Kitwe police Station, located in the outskirt of Kampala City.

The nurse will be arraigned later this week, to answer charges of supplying drugs to procure an abortion and performing an abortion.

Last week, Nsangi magistrate found another woman guilty of giving false information to the Police and faking pregnancy, and sentenced her to a fine of Ushs 300,000 or 12 months imprisonment in default..

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