JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
This case leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. It is yet another reminder of the depravity of some of the people to whom the safety of the young and vulnerable is entrusted. It also speaks to the fact that some institutions of learning, especially those charged with the education and care of children with disabilities, do not do quite enough to vet with the requisite vigilance, the persons they allow to come into contact, interact and otherwise deal with the children in their care. Too often the supposed shepherds turn on the sheep and the protector becomes the rapacious pest.
The appellant, Fred Wanjala Natembea was employed at the [particulars withheld]. His duties involved according to the school head teacher Gibson Ikumu Munanga, sleeping at the boys’ dormitory as, alas, “a house father, to assist the boys in case they have a problem at night.” (PW3) had also assigned the appellant, who had been at the special school for less than two months, “the right to remin…