Police in Rwamagana district have arrested a man and his wife for strangling to death their one year old boy child identified as Irakoze and throwing his body in a swamp.
Sources to the police say Christine Mutuyimana strangled her son after it emerged that her marriage to Nshimiyimana Ngarambe stood no chance.
Ngarambe did not father the child. The two had agreed to take Irakoze to live with Mutuyimana’s parents in Gicumbi after realizing that the kid did not get enough support from the mother and step father.
However, her parents refused to take in the child explaining that they had no means to take care of Irakoze.
On their way back from Gicumbi, the two decided to kill the child and do away with the body before returning back home Gishari sector, Rwamagana district.
Upon arrival neighbours asked them the whereabouts of Irakoze and were told that he had remained with his grandparents. However, they did not settle for an easy answer and continued pressurizing the couple.
Unsatisfied, residents called Police and the two later conceded that they had killed Irakoze and threw him in the swamp.
With Police in tow, the couple retrieved the dead body which was taken to Rwamagana mortuary while the culprits are detained at Kigabiro Police Station.
Police spokesperson, Supt.Theos Badege termed the crime as horrendous and unacceptable in the Rwandan society.
“It is unfathomable how a parent can decide to kill her own child. It is a shame to our societal values,” Badege said.
The criminals will be charged with premeditated murder according to article 312 of Rwandan penal cord which carries a life sentence.
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