A middle-aged woman from Olepito village in Busia County on Tuesday was disciplined by angry residents for allegedly neglecting her children.

The residents descended on her with kicks and blows shortly after he had arrived at his home from an unknown place following the death of one of her children. The forty-year-old woman had in the morning left her children in the house crying as he went to the unknown destination.

According to the residents, the woman had neglected her children to an extent of them getting seriously infested with jiggers. The jiggers made the children experience hardship in walking.

They were hardly attending school because of their conditions.It is also alleged that the woman left the children with no food.

They said that the woman carries sugar in her handbag so that the children don’t access it and cook tea while she is away.

“This woman is always away and when she leaves the house she hardly cooks for her six children or she just give them tea until evening. She carries sugar in her handbag and hides flour from the kids that is why her children are emaciated like this,” said one of the residents.

When all these was going on the husband whom the residents accused of being always drunk was not at home. The residents said the man is always drunk to an extent that he doesn’t know how his family is surviving.

The residents also vowed to teach the husband a lesson so that he learns how to take care of his family.

Meanwhile, the area chief has urged parents to take care of their children failure to which legal action will be taken against them.