Uganda: 13-Year-Old's Pregnancy Ordeal

6 November 2015

Silence engulfed Mubende Main Street on Thursday as a 13-year- old girl narrated how she was impregnated by a man almost twice her age.

The girl, whose name cannot be revealed because she's a minor gave birth to a baby girl on the eve of the just concluded Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). The girl said she was approached by Martin Ssegawa, a mobile phone shop operator on her way back home.

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