Police at Nyamata, Bugesera district is holding Akimana Jean Claude suspected of aiding a young woman to carryout an abortion.
The lady who hadnt been identified by press time said, she willingly asked Akimana to help her with aborting. She is a student at a highschool in Nyanza district.
She added that her new boyfriend had asked her to abort the baby promising to marry her in return. The father of the baby was a different man.
However, Akimana says he didn’t help the young woman to abort but was only admnistering medication to contain her excessive bleeding condition.
Early Sunday morning, the local defence official Rucyahana Théogene bagiye visited Akimana’s home where they found the young woman. It was discovered that She was staying at Akimana’s home without being registered at the Mudugudu and also a coctail of drugs were found in the house.
Akimana told Nyamata Police he didn’t intend to help the young woman in carryingout the abortion but he was contacted by other people who brought the lady to his place because he had previously been training as a nurse although he droppedout.
Akimana further told police that the lady had been brought to his place by other people who claimed that this lady had faulty menstration cycle characterised by overbleeding.
However, the lady said, she was taken to Akimana to carryout an abortion because the new boyfriend had insisted that he wouldnt marry her if she contained the pregnancy of another man. She was allegedly more than four weeks pregnant.
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