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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Police in Kampala have arrested an 18-year-old woman for allegedly mobilising her colleagues to torture her 14-year-old colleague over a lover. The hunt for the remaining suspects is on.<\/p>\n

According to police, the suspect is part of a group of girls caught in a video that has since gone viral beating up the 14-year-old (names withheld). The minor is accused of attempting to steal a boyfriend.<\/p>\n

Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire yesterday said the suspect was arrested from Kensington Village in Kyanja, a city suburb, and is currently detained at Kiira Division Police headquarters on charges of torture.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is the prime suspect that invited the victim to attend her birthday celebrations,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n

Mr Owoyesigyire said they are hunting for the other suspects seen in the video.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police at Kawempe have embarked on investigations into the viral Tiktok video that made rounds of social media showing a girl being tortured by a group of fellow girls and investigations into the matter have commenced,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Mr Owoyesigyire, after the video went viral, the mother of the victim reported to police that the girl had been missing from home for some time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tortured girl was identified by her mother, Aisha Kwagala,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Detectives at Kawempe Police Station told Monitor<\/b> that Ms Kwagala after watching the video, travelled from her home in Mpigi District to Maganjo in Wakiso District where her daughter was staying with a relative.<\/p>\n

Ms Kwagala told police that her daughter had run away from their home in Kagaba Zone, Kiringente Sub-county, Mpigi District.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am the mother of the girl who has been beaten in the video. She escaped from my home but I have seen her being tortured by people I don\u2019t know,\u201d she is quoted as telling the police officers.<\/p>\n

Police first opened a case of disappearance but they later established that the tortured girl had been called by her friends at their home.<\/p>\n

Mr Owoyesigyire said on physical examination, police realised that the girl was in too much pain and she needed to be examined by a police surgeon to classify the injuries she had on the body.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe agreed with the parents to keep her at our shelter as we wait for the examination of the surgeon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Horace Mugabi, a lawyer and human rights activist, who is among the people that got concerned after watching the torture video, told Monitor <\/b>that he visited Kawempe Police Station and was allowed access to the victim.<\/p>\n

He said the victim is in a better health condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you all who have reached out and managed to share the contacts, Police are already working on the case and I will give a detailed soon, freedom from torture is a non-derivable right and ought to be protected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to the 2020 annual police crime report, a total of 1,287 cases of child abuse and torture were reported, compared to 1,302 cases in 2019.<\/p>\n

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