A 36 year old woman who is a resident of Umoja estate in Nairobi was accused of beating and shaving her teenage daughter with a kitchen knife.
The woman decided to act so because she deemed it as a befitting punishment for her teenage daughter whose mistake was to play with her peers for “too long.”
Police reports indicate that on the material day, the minor had gone to a salon to have her hair washed and conditioned before joining her friends to play till late into the evening.
“On returning home, the mother locked the house and assaulted her before reaching for a knife that she used to shave some of her daughter’s hair as punishment,” reads police papers. It goes on: “The accused later scalded the minor with hot water forcing her to scream for help.”
According to the investigating officer, the accused stayed long with the minor in the house after she realised that she had inflicted her with soft tissue injuries.
Ms Ochieng’, however, denied the charge of subjecting her daughter to cruelty asking the court to release her on favourable bond terms since she had a small child to take care of.
This, however, did not go well with the prosecution, which asked that the woman was to be remanded until her child testified against her.