Claim: A video of a child in a washing tub being beaten to the ground by a woman occurred in Sierra Leone.
The incident of the child beating video did not happen in Sierra Leone but somewhere in Uganda.
Full Text
A viral video has been circulating on social media platforms in Sierra Leone showing a disturbing video of a woman mercilessly beating up a young child to the ground from a bathing tub. The level of meanness in the video has enraged many on social media.
Social media users in Sierra Leone have been debating the location of the incident, with many claiming it happened somewhere in the country whilst a few others deny it was shot in the country. A couple of people reached out to DUBAWA, asking that we verify if indeed the video was shot in Sierra Leone.
Verification
DUBAWA heeding the request to do a quick verification on the viral video investigated the claim and asked for more detail on the matter from the people who shared the claim with us. In order to verify the video and its location, DUBAWA employed the InVID tool, which helps to verify videos by analyzing their content and also providing keyframes to further conduct a reverse image search.
This tool provided several key frames of the video in question and went ahead to do a reverse image search where the full story behind the claim and the video was laid bare. We were able to identify the woman as Nabulime Dorothy and the assaulted child was her two years old daughter.
The slippers flogging incident occurred in Uganda and the Ugandan Criminal Investigation Directorate tweeted about the incident and the arrest of the mother in these words:
“The @PoliceUG has today arrested Nabulime Dorothy who is seen in the viral clip circulating on social media assaulting her 2 years old daughter. She will be produced in court on Monday to answer for her actions.”
The INVID tool clearly shows the location of the video and the time it happened. Further investigations by DUBAWA on Twitter show multiple tweets of the arrested 22 years-old mother, Nabulime Dorothy, now in Police custody and set to appear in court on Monday, September 5, 2022, for torture with aggravation charges.
Conclusion
The trending video of the two-year-old child beaten by her mother with a pair of slippers has been verified through the video verifying tools at our disposal at DUBAWA. And the evidence is clear that the incident in the video did not happen in Sierra Leone but in Uganda, East Africa.
