If he raped you, why didn’t you tell us? At first, in private negotiations, Ssemata said to Mr. Kintu, the math teacher, “I am a fellow man: I come to you with understanding.” But Mr. Kintu thought it was ridiculous that he should be asked to pay a father and marry a girl who had not completed her primary education. He would look after his child, no doubt about that, but there was no way he was marrying a slum girl. Mr. Kintu did not realize that the issue had nothing to do with defiling a minor. Rather, it was about theft from a pension fund. Had Mr. Kintu paid the money to the wronged father
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