The villagers arrested a 50-year-old man from Cyogo Village, Kilibata Cell, Rugendabari Sector in Burera District, and handed him over to the Police, where he was suspected of molesting his neighbor’s sheep and killing it.
His neighbor named Turaguhorana Innocent says that the man was arrested in the early hours of January 26, 2024, after he was suspected of molesting the neighbor’s sheep, as he is known for this habit, and he was also locked up in Ruhengeri Prison.
He said, “That man was caught molesting a sheep. We also found sores on his back. He was in his barn at night when the sheep began to bleat and hit the owner of the house and ran. That’s when they went to bring him home and he was arrested in the morning. He is a man who is known for these habits because we are neighbors and I know him.
Talking to the Media, Itangishaka Emmanuel, the son of the sheep’s owner, said that when his mother heard the sheep bleating at midnight, she went out to find the man in the barn, He said, “In the middle of the night, my old lady heard the sheep crying, she got up and reached outside. The man who was in the barn jumped and ran.
He added: “The old lady already recognized the man and told us the clothes he was wearing. That’s when we went to his house and searched. It was around 5:20 p.m., we saw him coming home and we arrested him and handed him over to the Police who work in the Rugengabari sector.”
he young man says that the local authorities advised his mother to go and file a complaint at the RIB Station in Kirambo, and when he got there they asked him to return there on Monday, Itangishaka says that this is not the first time the man has been caught sexually assaulting a sheep. You know he won’t let us down a second time. In 2022, he was also released from prison after being accused of molesting sheep, and what he does when he molesting them is to kill them.
Apollinaire Karake, the head of the village of Cyogo, also says that the man has a habit of molesting sheep, which is why they went to his house to arrest him.
He said, “We found a dead sheep, the owner of the animal told us that the man immediately died as soon as he got rid of it, because when he ran, the owners of the animal had recognized him, that’s why we went to follow him home in the morning and caught him”.
He added: “He is known for stealing sheep and fornicating them, this was the third time, and last year he was released from where he was locked up in Ruhengeri prison accused of fornicating sheep, he continued to do these habits, so you can hear the 40 days of the robbery and he was arrested, it took us a lot of effort to catch him , because when he got home in the morning he attacked us first”.
