The Ugandans who kidnapped a young woman and aborted her baby, were finally sentenced in the Secunda Regional Court on August 13.
Lydia Mojemba (37), Wilson Seyikabi (49), Jingo Wassua (38) and Njobozi Katiti (46) were found guilty on July 23 on different charges including kidnapping, human trafficking, rape, abortion, assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm and for being in the country illegally.
This comes after Mojemba lured her niece to come to South Africa from Uganda to work for her. Mojemba was charged with human trafficking because she made her niece work for her and did not pay her.
After the niece decided not to work for her aunt any longer and moved in with her boyfriend in Secunda, Mojemba got the three other accused to help her kidnap her, held her in a room in Ogies, inserted abortion pills into her and later dumped the baby on the train tracks in Ogies.
The niece managed to escape and get help and later led the police to Ogies where the four were arrested in July 2018.
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The case was dragged out because the Ugandan language interpreter was often not able to attend court as well as the Ugandan’s legal representatives.
Katiti, who executed most of the crimes, tried everything not to be sentenced and complained again during their last court appearance that the other three tried to poison him in prison. He then tried to bring mitigating factors to the court’s attention so that he could get a less harsh sentence.
The magistrate, Graham Cupido, said in his sentencing it was serious crimes that were committed by Katiti, such as rape, and he committed it more than once when he inserted the abortion pills into the niece’s body.
Katiti was handed 22 years and three months imprisonment while the master brain, Mojemba, was sentenced to 30 years and three months imprisonment and Seyikabi to 18 years and three months.
Accused three Wassua walked out of court as a free man because he only helped to transport the niece and had already served six years in prison.
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