Uganda: two brothers' sentences for a child's ritual killing upheld on appeal
Record class
Context only
Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
two brothers who abducted and killed a child as a sacrificial offering
Organization
No organization assigned
Spiritual nexus
NOT AN AUTHORITY-ABUSE CASE. Victim-directed ritual: a child taken by strangers for the purpose of the offering itself.
- Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim
- Violent occult ideology or sacrifice
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2021-01-01 · convictions upheld on appeal
Ugandan High Court; Court of Appeal of Uganda. Two brothers of the Tomusange family were convicted of the murder of a child, killed as a ritual sacrifice said to bring riches and happiness, and sentenced to forty-seven years and nine months and thirty-seven years and eight months respectively. The Court of Appeal of Uganda upheld the convictions.
Appellate history
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Documented coercion mechanisms
- a child abducted specifically to be offered in a ritual said to bring riches
Primary record
Sources
- legal news court reporting appellate judgment report AfricanLII: 'Uganda prepares for new law on human sacrifice — here's what a case of human sacrifice looks like'.
Legal-information analysis of the Court of Appeal judgment.
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