Police have arrested a woman for allegedly trying to bury her seven year old daughter after beating her to death in her home.
The 30 year old woman from Lunga Lunga in Kwale County on Friday shocked villagers after she was arrested trying to transport the body to bury.
Residents from Gathini village in Kwale raised concerns after they were alarmed by screams emanating from the woman’s house, and upon rushing to ascertain the incident, found her beating the girl up with a chapati rolling pin.
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The woman, claiming she was disciplining her, continued to beat her up even after the villagers pleaded with her to stop.
One of the neighbours threatened to report her and further lamented that she was harming the child, forcing her to eventually stop.
“Around 9 p.m. on February 14, the suspect was heard assaulting her daughter using a chapati roller. Neighbours intervened, and the assault stopped,”
woman escaped her rented apartment on Thursday morning en route to her rural village with the body of the girl who had succumbed to injuries from the beating.
“Upon inquiry, neighbours established that the suspect was in her rural home in Mrima village, 30 kilometres away, with the dead body of the minor, which she had ferried for burial.
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Preliminary investigations reveal that the woman had wrapped the dead body in clothes, with noticeable blood stains on the girl’s face enroute trying to bury at her rural home.
“It emerged that the suspect was in her rural home preparing the burial of the dead child. The suspect went into hiding after police raided their home and recovered the body of the child.”
The body was moved to Msambweni Referral Hospital mortuary for post mortem, to aid the police in further investigations