Why are mothers murdering their children?

Last week, I read a story in one of the dailies that a mother in Karamoja had murdered her child. Irukunnyang Lowakori smashed her five-month-old baby against a rock and killed it. She took her own life after. Lowakori was fed-up of her husband’s abuses and torturous humiliations as the latter would argue that he bought her with cows and thus had the prerogative to treat her savagely!

The woman could only avenge her husband’s humiliations and torture by killing her child! Not so long

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