In the southern Ugandan town of Jinja, authorities detained a sports teacher at PMM Girls High School over the weekend because she might be a lesbian.

A sports teacher at PMM Girls High School was detained over the weekend by police in the southern Ugandan town of Jinja on suspicion of being a lesbian.

As parents and alums association members stormed the school on Friday to protest the teacher's suspected gay practices, the teacher is in police custody.

Local media reports alleged that the teacher had recruited pupils for lesbian activities and that the school had been reluctant to address the situation.

According to The Daily Monitor, the teacher's alleged lesbian partner reported her to the police, accusing her of abandoning her and enlisting schoolgirls in homosexual acts. 

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A 30-year-old woman who is her alleged lesbian lover turned herself in to the police. The couple is under our care. According to the partner's allegations, the teacher has been depriving her of necessities and cheating on her, according to James Mubi, a spokesman for the Kiira regional police, as reported in the newspaper.

Yet, he continued, "the suspect confessed to investigators that she rented a residence for her girlfriend and set up for her timber business. She denied claims she did not provide her purported lesbian partner with basic needs.

The duo will face charges of sexual harassment, according to the police.

In Uganda, homosexuality is unacceptable by law. All "unnatural sexual actions" are not permitted by Section 145 of the Criminal Code Act, Cap. 120, and are punishable by a life sentence if found guilty.

In the meantime, the Ugandan Parliament is working to approve a new anti-homosexuality bill after courts struck down the previous one for being passed without the required quorum and so unconstitutional.

Only a few months after President Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act in February 2014—hailed by the then-President of Uganda Rebecca Kadaga as the best Christmas present ever given to Ugandans was revoked by the nation's Constitutional Court.