Umutoni Annet (“the defendant) was charged with two counts of aggravated child trafficking and human trafficking. The defendant deceived the two victims into traveling to Uganda to work in a supermarket, promising them UGX. 100,000 to begin with and more money later. Instead the victims were forced to work as domestic workers; cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the defendant’s baby, and not paid for their work.

Victim 1, (16 years old) was examined by the prosecution’s witness, (PW.1), on 22/12/2011. V1 was documented to have a tear on her posterior aspect of the hymen more than 5 days old. PW.1 documented that V1 appeared to be depressed and had been sexually assaulted. Victim 2 (14 years old), was also brought in to be examined on 22/12/2011. V2 was documented to have a tear on her left posterior aspect of the hymen, and was concluded to have been penetrated by a blunt object and had a sexually transmitted disease. The doctor prescribed antibiotics, pessaries, and pain killers to treat the infection. All of which V2 received, except the pessarries.

PW.1 documented that V1 looked depressed, or not happy and not comfortable. PW.1 also noted that he needed to use an interpreter when talking to V1, since there was a language barrier. During the examination, V1 told PW.1 she had been forcefully having sexual intercourse for a week with Job, one of the residents at a house where the defendant took the two victims to work.

V2 had met the defendant before, when the defendant was visiting PW.3 at Gahanga in 2011, because PW.2 and V2 live next to each other.

V2 (also PW.5) stated that she left home on 04/11/2014 to go to Uganda with the defendant, because she was promised a job from the defendant. V2 stated the defendant gave her money to take a taxi from her home in Garanga to Inyanza, they then travelled by car to Remera, by bus to Nyagatare, where they used motorcycles to cross through the jungles up to a swamp where they left the motorcycles and crossed the swampy river on foot up to Uganda. After which V2 was left at the motorcyclist’s house with the defendant’s baby, where the motorcyclist would sleep with her at night and have sex with her.

Around January 2012, the accused came with the police to her home. By the time the police found V2 she was at the defendant’s house for three to four weeks. During those three to four weeks, V2 could not communicate with the neighbours through the fence because of the language barrier. The police took V2 to the Kireka police station, where V1, V1’s mother, and V1’s aunt was. The police also went to Rwenrobo to arrest the motorcyclist.

PW.6 (also V1) testified that she was 18 years old, having been on 20/12/1996, which contradicts earlier statements about her year and birth date. V1 stated that she met the defendant in Kimironko. After one night there, they travelled by motorcycle to Rwentobo, where V2 had been left with the defendant’s baby. From Rwentobo, the two victims, the defendant, and her baby travelled to Kampala to a home of a lady called Scovia, where V1 spent one week looking after the defendant’s baby. After that week, V1 was taken to the home of Job and Jennifer, while V2 was left with the defendant’s baby. While at Job’s house, V1 was forced to have sexual intercourse daily, for a week. V1 did not understand the language that Job spoke, but saw that he had a police uniform and a pistol on the bed.

After the week at Job and Jennifer’s house, the defendant took V1 to Diana’s house to do housework, and was to be paid UGX. 40,000, which never actually happened.

V2 and V1 left their homes, albeit voluntarily, but without the knowledge or consent of their parents, especially when V2 was, without any dispute still aged below 18 years (a minor).