This archive report was first published on 6 July 2019.
On June 30, 2019, Beatrice Acen, a 35-year-old woman from Uganda, attacked her husband, Moses Okot, a 46-year-old peasant farmer, after he refused to have sex with her as punishment for her continuous heavy drinking.
According to the Daily Monitor, Mrs. Acen returned home at 10 pm, drunk, and demanded sex from her husband. However, Mr. Okot had already gone to sleep after a long day of hunting and eating.
When Mrs. Acen called out to her husband to open the door, he awoke to find his pants wetted with blood. He later discovered that his genitals had been slashed off.
Mr. Okot believes that his wife resorted to this drastic measure due to his longstanding method of punishing her for her 'alcoholism' by denying her sex.
As he explained, 'As a man, I would no longer tolerate such, so I decided to deny her sex with hope that she would reform.'
However, this is not the first time that Mrs. Okot got physical when her husband denied her advances. The chairman of the village where the couple lives revealed that last year, she broke her husband's collar bone during a domestic fight and ran away.
Domestic violence is a big problem in Uganda, especially in northern Uganda where Mr. Okot's village is located. Mr. Okot was taken to the local police station to file a complaint against his wife before being rushed to Apac main hospital for medical treatment.
