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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Charity Sisters in Moroto have taken the responsibility of taking care of 13 South Sudanese children that police rescued from child traffickers who they intercepted earlier this week.
The children have been living with police, sleeping at police reception until Wednesday when the Catholic Church Charity Sisters Missionaries took the children to their compound to play, stay and eat together with other abandoned children under the care of same Sisters.
On Sunday, police arrested 3 suspected traffickers with the South Sudanese children aged 6 to 7 years.
The suspects passed through Kenya and entered Uganda via the porous Turkana border to Moroto without documents.
The suspects claim they were taking the children to one of the primary schools located in Ngora which we couldn’t specify.
Michael Longole, the Karamoja regional police spokesperson confirmed that the children had been taken by Charity Sisters and they are healthy and happy.
He said the three suspects who are still under police custody will be produced before courts anytime since the case is now involving Interpol.
“These people came with children without any single document permitting them to move with the children, if they were genuine, they should have written to the immigration office, minister of internal affairs,” he said.
Peter Logiro, one of the residents however cautioned police not to play with such files saying such culprits should be jailed.
“I hope this not a delaying tactic for the police to see ways of releasing these suspects on police bond, let them be remanded in prisons,” he said.
Marry Angolere, a child activist in Moroto wandered why mothers who spent nine months carrying pregnancy allow strangers to take their children without accompanying them.
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