Patience Aber
10 July 2009
Gulu — One-year-old Robin Ogwal was hoping to have fun while his parents were away in the garden, and wait for them until they come back to have a cold bath. But unfortunately, he never lived to see that and his parents, Geoffrey Ogwal and Dorothy Amongi, never saw their son's giggling laughters at the end of that day.
As he was playing with his mates on a black June 24, he was whisked away by an unidentified man in a black saloon car to an unknown destination. Cries by his young colleagues yielded nothing and Loro Trading Centre, where they lived was basking with too much activity to hear their innocent cries. His parents saw him 12 days later, in a state that has left them shocked. Police informed them that their lovely son's body was found lying in the trading centre without its head and private parts.
On Sunday, the Regional Police spokesperson for north, Mr Johnson Kilama, confirmed the incident. He said a body of a one-year-old baby had been found lying in the environs of its parent's home, without the head and private parts. "Some men came in a saloon car and found Robin Ogwal playing with other children. They carried him, put him in the car and sped off," Mr Kilama told Daily Monitor, adding: "When his mother returned from the garden she looked for him in vain and she reported the case to us (police)."
He warned parents against leaving children on their own, adding that cases of children disappearing are on the rise. "Parents usually lodge complaints of children disappearing. Sometimes we look for them and we don't find them. Just the other day, a Primary Six pupil from Police Primary School disappeared and he was found a day later in Pece," he added.
In February this year, five children went missing from Pader District and at least three were confirmed dead. Over the past three years, there has been a spate of child sacrifice all over the country and Parliament recently wanted a law passed against the practice. Police statistics indicate that at least 18 ritual murder cases were reported in 2008, but only 15 had been investigated and close to 3,000 children disappear from home annually.
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