Police in Busia District is investigating circumstances under which a 16-year-old girl, whose head was cut off and the body parts were taken has been discovered dumped.
Police found a decomposing body over the weekend and are treating it as a case of child sacrifice.
The deceased Mercy Bridget Mwanga, disappeared on June 6 after she reportedly left home on a bicycle to run an errand but didn’t return and her family and locals have since been searching for her but in vain.
However, her rotting body was found by residents over a month later on July 10th headless and dumped in a maize garden near their home in Mawero East B Village, Eastern Division in Busia Town.
Also missing on her body were her breasts alongside breasts other private body parts that had been cut off.
Patrick Lule, the officer-in-charge -OC at Busia Central Police Station-CPS, confirmed the incident and says the deliberate mutilation of her body parts raises the suspicion that the juvenile is a victim of child sacrifice.
