Dr. Lawrence Eron, the embattled lecturer of Kyambogo University who is has since last been on the run over allegations of defiling a 16 year old visually impaired female student and infecting the minor with HIV/AIDS was finally arrested and remanded on Friday July 5, 2024.
Dr. Eron who has a past record of sexual immoralities involving minors, according to his natives in Apac district, on Friday, appeared before Chief Magistrate Christine Nantege, in Kampala who didn’t allow him to plead to the charges against him because they are capital in nature and can only be tried by the High Court.
Dr. Eron who allegedly committed the offence October 12th, 2023, between Kyambogo University and Namugongo Nsawo village in the Wakiso District, has since been on the run.
Sent ot Luzira prison until July 17th, 2024 as investigations continue, Eron
is alleged to be a habitual defiler who started the bad acts in the 1990s.
Born in Alido Village, Alido Parish in Chawente Subcounty in the then Apac District now in Kwania District, Eron joined government service in early 90s as a primary school teacher.
He first came on spot in 1998 when he was a primary school teacher at one of the primary schools in Apac District when he was accused of luring a female pupil into sexual intercourse.
A source that preferred not to be named revealed that Eron had godfathers at Apac District education department and he maneuvered with the case and he escaped narrowly.
The number of minors he had sexually abused could be more than some few cases reported same for the few times he was caught.
Mr Steven Opio, a resident of Alido Village in Chawente Subcounty who said that Eron became disastrous when he joined public service.
“During the time we were growing up he was very humble but along the way I also heard that he was involved in some defilement case though the case didn’t go further,” he said.
Alfred Oyuru 67, a resident of Apac Municipality said that the defilement case in which Eron was involved died along the way after he negotiated the case with the parent of the victim.
“When he committed that defilement I was a parent at Apac P7 School and he was one of our teachers but the minor was not a pupil of that school. He paid it heavily and around the year 2000 he disappeared, then I just heard that he was employed at Kyambogo University,” he said.
