Advocacy group rallies behind visually impaired teen in defilement case against University don

The Nakawa Chief Magistrate’s Court was filled Wednesday with supporters of a 16-year-old sight-impaired girl allegedly defiled by a Kyambogo University professor.

The group held signs with messages like, “Justice now, disability doesn’t mean inability, show compassion for disabled youth, our disabilities don’t make us worthless”.

Dr Lawrence Eron, 56, a senior lecturer at Kyambogo University, is in custody on a charge of aggravated defilement contrary to the Penal Code Act.

He appeared before Chief Magistrate Christine Nantege, who sent him back…