A well-wisher has settled the Sh56,000 bill for a 22-year-old man accused of trying to smuggle his new-born baby from the Kenyatta National Hospital.
Boniface Murage, when presented at Milimani Law Courts on Monday pleaded guilty to charges levelled against him, saying he was unable to pay the Sh56,000 medical bill.
His lawyer however, pleaded for Mercy before Magistrate Caroline Nzibe arguing that his client was remorseful.
On Tuesday Magistrate Caroline Nzibe handed Boniface Murage a three-month suspended sentence.
A suspended sentence is a prison sentence that is not put into immediate effect. It allows a judge to decide that the offense is serious enough for a jail term, but in the particular circumstances of the case, some or all of the imprisonment should be suspended.
Therefore, Murage will now be on State watch for three months and he is expected not to commit any other crime or else he will be put on custodial sentence.
The accused person on Sunday tried to smuggle his daughter out of the Hospital using a carrier bag, before he was caught by the sentry at the hospital.
Nairobi governor mike Sonko on Monday led his team to Kenyatta National hospital and cleared medical bill of a woman and her baby amounting to Sh56, 937. Sonko had also promised to secure a lawyer for the child’s father at his cost to enable his freedom.
Embakasi East MP Babu Owino also offered to help the family and even suggested that Murage should change the guilty plea he had entered on Monday when he was arraigned.