How safe is your child when you go to work and leave them behind?Plenty of times caregivers have disappointed employers with inhuman acts that they carry out when the owners of the house leave them alone with their children.
A couple in Thika is seeking justice after a house help hit their baby with a glass plate that slit his forehead during an attack .
Mr Gerald Kimani told reporters that the house help, identified as Joyce Namuma Magoha from Bungoma County, fled after committing the act and left the baby crying while bleeding.
But before she stepped out, she sprinkled salt on the baby’s fresh wound.
“She hit the baby with the plate which broke into pieces and fled leaving the baby profusely bleeding,” Mr Kimani told journalists.
He does not know what time the incident happened, but says the baby was left unattended until evening when the mother returned from work and found him on the floor crying.
The house help was on Tuesday arrested at her hideout in Banana, Kiambu county.
She was transferred to Thika police station where she is being held.
When asked by police why she committed the act, the house help answered that “she had personal stress.”