Uganda: shrine operator and accomplices convicted of gang-raping a client seeking healing
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
traditional doctor and shrine operator
Organization
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The victim came to the shrine specifically for spiritual healing; the operator's ritual authority is what separated her from her husband and placed her under his control.
- Spiritual healing or treatment
- Other spiritual authority or belief
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Proceedings
2008-08-28 · conviction
High Court of Uganda (Uganda v Sheikh Abdu Said Nyanzi Masumbuko & Ors, Crim. Sess. Case No. 0458 of 2006, [2008] UGHC 22). A traditional doctor and shrine operator known as Sheikh Abdu Said Nyanzi Masumbuko and two accomplices were convicted after a woman who had come to his shrine with her husband seeking spiritual and healing services was drugged and gang-raped, then left in a swamp to stage her having wandered off — facts drawn from the High Court judgment.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- spiritual-healing services sought by the victim and her husband
- drugging at the shrine
Cited record
Sources
- official court judgment trial judgment Uganda v Sheikh Abdu Said Nyanzi Masumbuko & Ors, Criminal Session Case No. 0458 of 2006, [2008] UGHC 22 (28 August 2008).
The High Court judgment recording the shrine setting, the drugging, and the convictions.
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- https://ulii.org/akn/ug/judgment/ughc/2008/22/eng@2008-08-28 Corpus classification: official-court-judgment; evidentiary role: trial-judgment.
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