Conviction Nigerian juju Juju and oath systems Uganda · 2021

Uganda: two brothers' sentences for a child's ritual killing upheld on appeal

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Convictions and sentences upheld.

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Convicted

Authority role

two brothers who abducted and killed a child as a sacrificial offering

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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

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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.

Documented coercion mechanisms

a child abducted specifically to be offered in a ritual said to bring riches

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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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Source and tier basis: https://africanlii.org/articles/2021-08-06/carmel-rickard/uganda-prepares-for-new-law-on-human-sacrifice-heres-what-a-case-of-human-sacrifice-looks-like Corpus classification: legal-news-court-reporting; evidentiary role: appellate-judgment-report. SHA-256 8a6de96ed87ad6beb330ce2da675fd9ea55a934b14b0dc6e276d39e599333c10
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