60 women battered

MOROTO - Police says that about 60 cases related to domestic violence against women had been reported at the station since January. Agnes Amma, the second in-charge of the Family Protection Unit in Moroto, said that men in areas like Katanga, Acholi Inn and Katamukono villages lead in wife-battering.

Amma added that the police had embarked on sensitising men against beating their wives. She was reacting to a case in which a wife accused her husband of torture. And Francis Oketcho, the

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