A lady who is accused of killing her 8-year-old daughter by beating her has been taken into custody by Kiambu police on Monday.
The event happened in the Turitu village of Kiambu. Fena, a mother of three, beat her first-grader daughter with an electric wire.
The young girl had fled from home because her mother hit her, according to security guard Aggrey Kidake, who discovered her sleeping next to his kids when he arrived home from work on Monday at around eight in the morning.
Kidake claimed that after returning the girl to her home, he went. At about noon, he received a phone from his neighbors pleading with him to come quickly because their child had fallen and needed to be brought to the hospital.
Kidake stated, “The girl runs to my house whenever she is beaten, and I found her there and gave her back to her mother. However, later that day, the girl’s mother called to tell me that her daughter was dying and that I should go to the hospital right away because she had fallen.”
He said the girl had soiled herself, her clothing was bloody, and she was begging for water when he got to the residence.
He claimed, “I rode a motorcycle to Kiambu Level Five Hospital and rushed the girl there. The girl was declared dead.”
The girl did not die from falling alone, as the woman claimed when the physicians questioned what had happened, but when the body was taken to the mortuary, numerous bruises were found on it.
“The girl had multiple bruises on her body, and the mortuary attendants saw this and insisted that it was a police case and the woman should report to the police,” the speaker stated after reviewing the girl’s body.
The guard claimed that the woman asked him if she should tell the truth since she was afraid that the incident had turned into a police inquiry.
He continued, “The woman was calm the entire time, but she panicked and asked me if she should tell the truth when she heard that it had become a police matter.”
Elizabeth Nyambura, a college student and next-door neighbor, claimed that the noise caused by the lady abusing her child—which had been the norm—woke her up.
She claimed, “I was woken up by the woman beating her up again as she was brought back by the neighbor. The woman beats her daughter almost every day when the girl runs away to sleep at a neighbor’s house.”
She claimed that when she had finished getting ready to leave for school, the mother had shut herself inside her home and there were sounds of the youngster being thrashed.
“As neighbors, we were powerless to stop the mother from abusing the girl because she beats her up frequently and, when questioned, calls us names and acts aggressively, telling us to mind our own business and discipline her kids as she pleases,” the neighbor added.
The fourth-grader son of the woman is alleged to have had his legs broken when he was a tiny boy and was subsequently brought to a children’s home where he currently resides.
The grandmother of the deceased, Lucy Njoki, said that the woman ended her relationship with the girl’s father, her son because she was abusing him and they could not continue to be together.
“I received a call from a neighbor informing me that Fena severely beat her daughter and that she was taken to the hospital, where it was declared she was dead,” Njoki stated.
Njoki claimed that because the woman had long since moved on to escape them, she was unaware of her granddaughter’s predicament.
The mom allegedly made multiple police reports about the girl’s injuries, and the school administration repeatedly called her.
The woman is being held at the Kiambu police station after being detained while carrying her one-year-old daughter. She is regarded as enthusiastic and diligent, and she prepares meals for construction workers.
