A 29 year old woman was charged for intending to steal a three year old girl and packing her in a bag within Nairobi.
Lydia
Gathoni Wanjiru was accused of fixing the baby girl in a sisal bag
from a house where she posed as a visitor in Mathare area.
She allegedly tricked the babies mother to go to the shop as she tried to place the baby in a bag on 5th July of this month.
On
the fateful day, she visted the babies mother and introduced herself as
being close friends with the mother. She claimed to be hungry and gave
the babies mother some money to buy food .
She explaind her main interest was to visit and bless the baby as
it had been a long term arrangement which she needed to fulfill.
However, incidents later stated that Gathoni fraudulently intended to
deprive the three year old girl from her mother.
Ten minutes after the babies mother went to the shop, she returned
to find Gathoni had fixed her baby in a bag ready to exit the house. She
had unlawful possession of the child and was in the process of
disapearing without a clear identity.
She raised an alarm and a mob of neighbors responded . Gathoni was nearly burnt with a tire and by an angry mob.
She was taken to pangani police station and charged with Child stealing, contrary to section 174 of the penal code.
SHe denied the charge before a Makadara court. She was granted a cash bail of sh 20,000.
Prosecution didn not explain weather she planned to sell the baby or what her intentions were.
According
a Childs Officer and sources ,child stealing and selling is on the rise
. A child can be sold for at least sh 25,000 from slums and other low
income areas.
Senior Principal Magistrate Timothy Okello said the case will be heared on October 16th at the same court.
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