{"id":73085,"date":"2014-12-10T16:23:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=73085"},"modified":"2014-12-10T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T16:23:04","slug":"ugandan-nannys-plea-null-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=73085","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan nanny\u2019s guilty plea nullified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ugandan nanny\u2019s guilty plea for torturing an 18-month old baby has been nullified.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the transfer of her case files from a lower court; City Hall Court to a higher court; Buganda Road Magistrates Court by the State Attorney.<\/p>\n<p>She was expected to be sentenced on Wednesday after admitting to the charges of torture.<\/p>\n<p>Jolly Tumuhiirwe was caught on a secret camera, beating up and kicking an 18-month-old baby and video went viral across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;QsPtMaOKF8EH5WJgNhIM6T57F7plKhhm&#8221;]According to a Ugandan website, the Daily Monitor, this new development means the hearing of the case will begin anew on Tuesday, December 16.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old maid, Jolly Tumuhiirwe\u2019s lawyer, Ladislaus Rwakafuzi told Ugandan media that the section 4 of Uganda\u2019s Prevention and Prohibition of Torture Act 2012 stated that it is only a higher court that has powers to hear such cases and not a lower court.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the nanny\u2019s guilty plea heard before City Hall Court is now null and void, therefore, a new plea would have to be taken at the Buganda Road Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n<p>The nanny pleaded guilty to the attempted charges of torture at City Hall Court and subsequently pleaded for forgiveness on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmoline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.crea   teElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ugandan nanny\u2019s guilty plea for torturing an 18-month old baby has been nullified. This follows the transfer of her case files from a lower court; City Hall Court to a higher court; Buganda Road Magistrates Court by the State Attorney. She was expected to be sentenced on Wednesday after admitting to the charges of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":72391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-73085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}