A Kenyan woman has been arrested for allegedly poisoning her four-year-old daughter so as to be free to fly to Saudi Arabia to work as a housemaid.
The woman from Kandara, Murang’a County, is suspected to have committed the crime between November 6th and 7th after she secured employment in the Gulf nation through an agent and was scheduled to travel on November 16th, police said.
“She approached her husband with the news and requested that he be left taking care of the child …,” reads a police report of the incident as quoted by Nation.
When her husband turned down her plan, the suspect allegedly hatched a plan to kill the minor so as to be free to leave the country. She reportedly bought some yoghurt from a shop, laced it with poison, and fed it to her child.
“It is after she consumed the yoghurt that the baby developed severe vomiting and died minutes later. The yoghurt container emitted [a smell suspected to be of] a pesticide,” the report added.
Police found a container of a half-used pesticide from the couple’s house whose smell matched that detected in the yoghurt container.
Kandara sub-county Police Commander Michael Mwaura said investigations into the child’s death are ongoing as they wait for a postmortem to determine the cause of her death. Mwaura said the report will help determine the next cause of action.
This female Raila/Kabogo…
This female Raila/Kabogo/Babu should be forced to swallow double dose the same poison she gave the child.She should be dead by now.
Huyo ni mhalifu. The husband…
Huyo ni mhalifu. The husband should just get rid of her.
@ Mu mo, that goes without…
@ Mu mo, that goes without saying. When you are charged with murder,you pretty much have kissed good bye your freedom to live among the civilized.The least she could hope for is life imprisonment.
Shocking. Evil does not get this bad.It is indeed counterintuitive to think that many couple would move heaven and earth just to have one child…and this crazy women has no hesitation to destroy one.Hang her.
No family to take care of…
No family to take care of the minor or this was most probably a come we stay where the lady took off to be “kept” .Parent with a pea brain you were running off only you got it backwards killed your child because most probably you would come back in a coffin.
This is unbelievable
You…
This is unbelievable
You kill your baby for a job
So precious a gift from God you poison .?
This is in human. You will rot in jail and you will be haunted by this forever
Which job? In dead trapped…
Which job? In dead trapped Saudi Arabia? She would have come back paralyzed or dead anyway!
Most folks believe that…
Most folks believe that living and working abroad is the only way out. Western world has done a great job selling the image of roads paved with dollars if not gold.
We need to dig deeper within ourselves. Social media also is part and puzzle of the problem. Folks postings showing how well they are doing, without showing what they go through to achieve their lifestyles.
If only we had the opportunities in Kenya.
@ Kora Kanini, I read the…
@ Kora Kanini, I read the other day that the world population hit 8 billion “beings” this week.From there on the population is expected to eventually dwindle.Africa has the youngest. 40% are below 15 years.On the other hand Europe has a higher number of older people.The implication here is obvious.Man power of any country does not come from the elderly…
My anecdotal observation in Kenya shows me that days of a man and a wife producing 6 kids are long gone.
Of course living “in the moment” is what our concern is for now,but the prognosis in my view is that 50 years from now, there will be a lot of employment…That is if we dont destroy ourselves…
No wonder some visionary scientists are even creating human like robots to carter for romantic needs(companionship) of the future.Wow!100 years from now the world will be quite different for sure.What say you?