Woman charged with killing baby

By VINCENT MABATUK

A court has been informed of how a mother of two allegedly killed her two-year-old daughter by throwing her into a flooded river.

The prosecution through investigating officer Richard Nyakora told the court Jane Njoki decided to commit the act following a fallout between her and the husband in May, last year.

The police officer told Justice Roslyn Wendo at Nakuru High Court the accused was seen last with the child before residents stumbled on the body at River Rwathia more than a week after the disappearance.

The mother was charged last year, with the prosecution accusing her of murdering the baby at Ngomongo Market in Nyandarua before going underground.

The court learnt the accused picked the child from where she was staying with a woman friend but never returned back until she was arrested following a tip off from a section of her family members.

Nyakora told the court that eight days following the discovery of the decomposing body, the woman was arrested and locked up at Oljororok police station before transferred to Nyahururu police station where she allegedly recognised the body as that of her baby.

“She was categorical she left the baby with the grandmother on that material day but this was not true, it was a lie to confuse the police,” he told the court.

She will appear before the court again on February 14.