The charity says the statistics are alarmingly high, given that most defilement cases are never reported.
The police's 2007 Crime Report says 12,230 defilement cases were reported in 2007 against 15,385 in 2006.
In the same period, 535 suspected defilement cases were registered (205 went to court, 209 cases are pending, while only seven convictions have been secured).
In some instances, he says, parents don't report cases of defilement to police as they opt to settle out-of-court - in other cases, "even if they report, most of them withdraw the cases".
Hardly a day passes without an African newspaper, radio or TV report focusing on a fresh case of defilement, a sex crime against juveniles that seems to thrive on widespread poverty.
In fact, defilement is a capital offence in cases where the victim has been infected with HIV/Aids virus or is very young and has been defiled by a relative ─ categorised as aggravated defilement.
They are always pure and are not subject to defilement.
I thought no more about it, but quite unexpectedly in the evening of the appointed day, the Archivist Iemitsu come with a letter from the ex-emperor, saying that I was not the hold back on account of the defilement, but was to come in any case.
In Mary's case, her husband's attack never made it to the local police station and neither do many cases of violence against women, including defilement.
Several witnesses are dead or cannot remember, much evidence is long lost, and Uganda's legal system is often unable to deal with the simplest crimes, let alone this one.Mr Mukiibi, who takes the official court record in longhand, is juggling 30 cases before him this session, over half of which involve the crime of "defilement" (the age of consent is treated as a rough guideline in much of Uganda).
Turner's subject is the way a district's history of poverty, defilement, and petty retribution can coexist with, and be elevated by, its trade in beauty and every kind of physical and spiritual release.
