Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye is a 37 year old woman with 38 children.
She lives in Kabimbiri village, Mukono District.
Narrating her story to Uganda’s Daily Monitor she said that she was married off to her then forty year old husband at age 12 after she escaped death in 1993.
“I did not know I was being married off. People came home and brought things for my father. When time came for them to leave, I thought I was escorting my aunt but when I got there, she gave me away to the man.”
She added that her husband was polygamous and abusive.
She gave birth to her first set of twins in 1994 when at age 14. Two years later, she gave birth to triplets and a year and seven months after that added a set of quadruplets.
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