Have you imagined that someone can strangle his or her own baby and throw it in a dumpsite and later confess to the act? This are the acts that have jusst recently witnessed in Kenya.
On October 31, 2018, Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) appealed to the public for information on the identity(or any other information) of a male child aged 1 year, found wrapped in a paper bag & dumped at a dumpsite within the Kenya Meteorological Department Staff Quarters.
#DCI Detectives are appealing for information on the identity(or any other information) of a male child aged 1 year, found wrapped in a paper bag & dumped at a dumpsite within the Kenya Meteorological Department Staff Quarters. If you have any info, kindly report to DCI Kilimani. pic.twitter.com/IOVAd1pQi3
— DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) October 31, 2018
The DCI urged the public with any information to kindly report to DCI Kilimani.
Thank God, the public managed to give information and on Saturday Mercy Chepngeno aged 22 yrs, was arrested in Kuresoi after confessing to strangling the child & dumping the body at the Staff Quarters’ dumpsite where she had worked as a house help for a few days.
Mercy reportedly strangled the baby boy on Saturday before stuffing his body in a plastic bag and disposing it off at the meteorological department staff quarters dumpsite in Kuresoi.
#ARRESTED|Mercy Chepngeno aged 22 yrs, the mother of the child was yesterday arrested in Kuresoi.She confessed to strangling the child & dumping the body at the Staff Quarters’ dumpsite where she’d worked as a house help for a few days. We thank the public for the information. https://t.co/p7Shwt8zLZ
— DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) November 4, 2018
The woman is set to be arraigned in court to face charges of infanticide after police complete investigations.
The law defines infanticide as the offence where “a woman by any wilful act or omission causes the death of her child being a child under the age of twelve months, but at the time of the act or omission the balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent on the birth of the child.”
The offence is dealt with and punished as if she had been guilty of manslaughter of the child.
This is not the first case to be reported since previously women have been found giving birth and throwing their infants in pit latrines.
What is happening to the people surely? Is this not being inhumane?
Arresting the suspects and prosecuting them should be a lesson to prevail.
What do you think should be done to curb the situation?