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Delayed justice as trial of cops in Baby Pendo killing drags on

Family members and relatives and friends stand by the coffin bearing the remains of Baby Samantha Pendo during a mass at St Joseph Catholic church in Kisumu on August 25, 2017. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Baby Samantha Pendo would have been two months and five days' shy to her seventh birthday today were it not for some police officers who brutally snuffed life out of her.

On the night of August 12, 2017, in Nyalenda slum, Kisumu, Pendo's mother Lencer Achieng and her husband Joseph Abanja were woken up by a commotion from their neighborhood.

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