Father jailed 30 years for defiling own daughter, two other girls

What you need to know:

  • During the trial before Justice Margaret Mutonyi, Ndawula had insisted on being innocent of the charge of aggravated defilement that attracts up to the maximum punishment of death by hanging for the last four years.
  • In a related development, the same court sentenced 53 year old man, a resident of Buvuma Island on Lake Vitoria to 25 years for defiling a six year old girl.

MUKONO. Court in Mukono District has sentenced a 34-year-old man to 30 years in jail for repeatedly defiling his nine-year old daughter and two other girls under his charge.
Moses Ndawula pleaded guilty of repeatedly defiling three girls aged between nine and ten years, one of whom was his daughter.
The names of the defiled girls have been concealed since they are minors and also to avoid public ridicule.
During the trial before Justice Margaret Mutonyi, Ndawula had denied the charge of aggravated defilement that attracts up to the maximum punishment of death by hanging for the last four years.

However, when he saw his daughter in court for the first time, ready to testify against him, Ndawula who had on several occasions denied the charges instantly changed his statement and pleaded guilty.
While sentencing Ndawula, justice Mutonyi said he had turned the three girls into his wives whom he would sexually abuse every night and that his act was a disgrace to humanity.
“His conduct was shockingly brutal and cruel, it is exceptionally displeasing and monstrous, and it’s an abomination among the human race. With all the women around Kauga and Mukono, he decided to subject the little victims to horror every night….” said justice Mutonyi.

Justice Mutonyi added: “I have tried to figure out the appropriate sentence for him. The convict was a father to one of the victims and a guardian to two others. The victims were aged nine and ten years old. The defilement or sexual assault was repeatedly done. All these aggravate the offense. The only mitigating factor was pleading guilty after five years and eight months and after seeing his own very daughter, he does qualify to be a father to these little children,” added the judge.

According to the judge, the terrible nights of sexual assault can never be erased from the minds of these little girls.
“In the result, he is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment on each and every count with the period spent on remand inclusive. The sentences shall run concurrently,” the judge noted further.
Shortly after delivering her judgment, justice Mutonyi asked Ndawula to pray to God so that his daughter is not affected by the curse of incest.

Before the judge could sentence Ndawula to prison, his daughter asked him where exactly her mother was.
In response, he said he doesn’t know where she is but he told court that they met at Katuna border between Uganda and Rwanda. Ndawula also amused court when he said he only knew one name of the mother of his daughter as Eve.
Court documents showed that Ndawula used to stay together with his daughter and the two girls in the same rented house in Kauga in Mukono District.
He used to have sex with them in turns almost every night between 2010 and 2011.

However, one day, his land lady, Ms Victoria Namaganda heard one of the girls crying and when she inquired what the problem was, the girl confided in her their ordeal.
In turn, the land lady reported the matter to Mukono police station leading to Ndawula’s arrest and prosecution.
In a related development, the same court sentenced 53 year old man, a resident of Buvuma Island on Lake Vitoria to 25 years for defiling a six year old girl.
While sentencing Wafula Peter to 25 years, Justice Mutonyi held that defilement cases had become rampant on the Island and that the sentence should act as a warning to other potential offenders.