Kampala — Ugandan authorities have charged two U.S. foster mother and father with committing “aggravated torture” in opposition to their 10-year-old son, police mentioned Tuesday.
They have been charged Friday and remanded to Luzira Prison, a most safety facility on the outskirts of the capital of Kampala, police mentioned in a press release.
The prices allege that the couple, each 32, “constantly tortured” the boy between 2020 and 2022, with neighbors sounding the alarm for the kid who attended a faculty for youngsters with particular wants in Kampala.
When police raided the home, they discovered CCTV proof exhibiting that the kid was pressured to squat in an “awkward position,” served solely chilly meals and made to sleep on a “wooden platform, without a mattress or bedding,” the assertion mentioned.
The boy was certainly one of three youngsters fostered by the couple, who arrived within the East African nation in 2017 to volunteer at a U.S.-based non-profit within the city of Jinja earlier than shifting to Naguru, an upscale Kampala suburb, to work at a start-up.
International adoptions have sparked controversy in Uganda.
In 2020, the U.S. authorities filed prison prices and imposed financial sanctions in opposition to a US-based adoption ring that positioned Ugandan youngsters who weren’t orphans with households within the United States.