Jinja District authorities have closed nine children’s homes over alleged sexual abuse of children.
The homes include; Jinja Community Church Children’s Home, Siita Nest, Mother’s Love Home, Father’s Divine Children’s Home, Peg Ministries Namulesa, Whisper in Mutai, Care for Kids, Wanyange and Street Kid Project on Kiira Road in Jinja municipality.
According to Opio Ouma, Jinja Senior District Probation Officer, most of the schools were registered as CBOs and not babies’ homes while in some homes, the caretakers were sexually abusing the children.”
Ouma said he receives at least five cases of sexual abuse of children from some remand homes on a monthly basis, further explaining that some male caretakers fondle the girls while others hurl obscenities at one another in the midst of the children.
The children will now be taken to the approved homes or reunited with their family members. However, Agnes Nabawanga, also known as Mama Jane, a manager of Mama Jane Children Care Centre, said the closure of homes will increase the number of street children.
