This archive report was first published on 27 September 2019.
On September 27, 2019, Annet Namata was sentenced to two years in jail for forcefully feeding her stepdaughter menstrual blood in Mukono, Uganda.
According to reports, Namata pleaded guilty to the charges, which led to a reduced sentence from seven to two years, as per the court's verdict.
Magistrate Patience Koburunga took into consideration Namata's guilty plea, which saved the court time, as well as her request for leniency as a mother of three.
However, Namata's husband, Yunus Lungu, was not satisfied with the verdict, stating that she should have been jailed for a longer time.
‘Let her serve her time and hopefully she may learn her lesson,’ he said.
Namata was first apprehended by the police in June after her husband discovered that she had been mixing her menstrual blood with food and forcing the teenager to eat.
