I think they lied. And I was little when this happened, they just told me a week ago" he said.

"Okay, and I'll buy you some clothes tomorrow. And no, I dont really remember you." he said. He smiled and took her hand, leading her to her room. "This is where you'll slepe, I'm going to go take the couch." he said.

Blue woke up abruptly to the sound of sobbing. He furrowed his eyebrows. He satup slowly and creeped into Cody's room. He took in a sharp breath, not knowing what to do. He gently put his hand on her back, sitting down on the bed. He slowly sunk into the mattress, his weight making the bed dip. He rubbed her back gently, running past her spine, across herThe first national survey in Uganda on child abuse reveals that violence against children - ranging from physical, sexual and emotional - is occurring at all levels in society.



Mary Komugisha, 40, a single mother and food vendor in Kiswa, a Kampala suburb, became a grandmother under terrible circumstances.



Her 11-year-old daughter was raped.



She says her child was in 7th grade when she told her she had a problem. I am the mother and the father, Komugisha says, but I stayed strong. She told me so-and-so raped her in the toilet. He told her not to tell anyone or else I would beat her. She gave birth but; our situation is so bad. I don’t even have money to put her back in school, she says.



Komugisha lives in a one-room,