A mother who had left her baby under the care of her elder siblings and went for New Year’s eve service, came home to find a strange man sleeping on her bed with her baby lying on his chest.

According to NewVision, a Ugandan website, The child’s mother, Joy Kyomugisha, said she left the baby with her two elder sisters.

“I was shocked to find a stranger’s shoes in the house on Thursday morning yet I had not left any elder person at home. I asked the children but they were still asleep and they knew nothing about them.”

“When I checked in their bed, there was nothing but I found a strange man sleeping on my bed with the girl lying on his chest. I tried to wake him asking what he had come for but he was deep asleep and drunk.

“He later woke up and tried to attack me but I got an iron bar and hit him before he took off,” said the mother.

After the man fled, she checked her baby and found that the man had defiled her.

“I rushed to Kiwanga Police from where I was reffered to Seeta Police. We were taken to Mulago where the doctor examined the baby and gave her some medication. She now urinates in pain,” she said.

The woman’s other children said that they woke up at around 6:00am to use the toilet and they believe that the alleged culprit could have used that chance to sneak in because they had not locked the door.

Local police confirms that the suspect, Ben Ssemivumbi, defiled the baby and they cite a doctor’s report that proves that the baby was defiled.

The suspect who admitted that he had spent the entire New Year’s eve drinking said that while he mistakenly entered Kyomugisha’s house, he does not remember having sexual intercourse with the baby.

Amuza Mujeme, a police chief, told the Ugandan daily;

“Ssemivumbi was also examined and doctors found out that he is mentally upright. He is going to be prosecuted over charges of aggravated defilement.”