Three years ago, the woman was abandoned by her husband, leaving her to support their surviving 38 children alone.
Three years ago, however, the 39-year-old Ugandan was abandoned by her husband, leaving her to support their surviving 38 children alone.
Mariam Nabatanzi, a mother of 38 children, speaks at her home in Kasawo village, Mukono district, east of Kampala, Uganda, on March 8 2019.Then her husband - often absent for long stretches - abandoned her. His name is now a family curse. Nabatanzi refers to him using an expletive. On a grimy wall in one room of her home hang proud portraits of some of her children graduating from school, gold tinsel around their necks.
After her father remarried, her stepmother poisoned the five older children with crushed glass mixed in their food. They all died. Nabatanzi escaped because she was visiting a relative, she says.
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