Police in Rulindo district is holding Domina Mukeshimana for deliberately strangling to death her newly born baby. Mukeshimana is currently detained at the District Police Unit head quarters.
According to Police’s investigations in Rulindo, community health workers informed Police about a dead body of a new born baby and when taken to the Hospital for post-mortem, the exams finally revealed that, the baby had been strangled.
Police sources noted that Mukeshimana had earlier been advised by community health workers to go for prenatal check up after they discovered she was pregnant.
Mukeshimana is also said to have kept her pregnancy a secret not until yesterday when she gave birth to a live baby only to murder the baby minutes after its birth.
After slaying an innocent baby boy, Mukeshimana called in neighbours to help her explaining she had given birth to a dead baby, a trick residents close to suspect’s home said was intended by the murderer to get away with getting discovered.
Asked why she killed her own baby, Mukeshimana denied any prior intentions to murder her own baby but claimed it was already dead at birth.
Police spokesperson superintendent Theos Badege condemned the crime saying that no one had the right to take life. Superintendent Badege said that there was no excuse whatsoever for Mukeshimana to strangle to death her own baby.
“It’s a shame that Mukeshimana loses a child and will probably languish in jail for so many years,” Badege said.
“People shouldn’t think of terminating lives of new born babies on grounds that they dont have financial means to cater for them as there are several support programs in place for the helpless people”, Badege added.
He urged people to avoid engaging in relationships that will later lead them to commit crimes.
Subject to provisions of Article 315 of the Rwanda Penal Code, Mukeshimana is liable to life imprisonment.
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