Rwampara missing toddler found dead!

By Correspondent 

The body of a toddler who went missing last week in Rwampara has finally been found. Leviticus Akatujuna one and half year old son to Ivan Besigye a resident of Rwamuhurura cell Kamomo parish Bugamba subcounty Rwampara District was reported missing from his parents’ home last week.

According to Samson Kasasira the Rwizi region police mouth piece the toddler was yesterday 03rd.March.2021 recovered dead in stream of water at about 500meters from their home.

ASP Kasasira told the press that the body had some signs of torture likely to have happened before he died and he attributed the child’s death to some conflicts within the family. Postmortem was done and body handed over to the relatives for burial arrangements as investigations into the gruesome murder continue.

It is common for parents to disagree and later shift their anger/anxiety to their children. Clearly, marital dissolution holds an explanation for the homicide pandemic in Uganda and this cannot be simply seen as a social matter as it is obvious that there is a public health focus to this phenomenon.

The discipline of public health in Uganda must commence an inclusion of this phenomenon in public health inquiry. While the matter is extensive and scope spans many disciplines such as economics, psychology, counseling and sociology (i.e., criminology), public health can offer a myriad of approaches that can address intimate partner violence, marital dissolution and psychology in divorce and marriages.

The business of marriage is a complex one and by merely instituting family laws will not address the psychology of the individuals therein nor the mental health issues that arise when there is a path of dissolution. Public health must begin to chart a path for studies on the psycho-pharmaceuticology of marital dissolution in an effort to address the psychology of divorce and mental health matters that are present in marriages, and are equally destroying the quality of life of people on the verge or in marital dissolution.