A 26-year-old woman has been arrested in Kebirigo sub-location, Nyamira County, on suspicion of throwing her aborted infant into a pit latrine.
“When I received a phone call from the Kebirigo sub-location assistant chief, our team of officers went to the homestead and found members of the public who had identified the suspect, Maraa Maroko, who was trying to procure an abortion of a 28 weeks old foetus and threw it inside the pit latrine from where it was rescued,” explained the Sub County police commander.
The officer said that after interrogation, Maria accepted that the infant rescued from the pit latrine was hers. Unfortunately, it died a few minutes after it was rescued.
The Kebirigo sub-location assistant chief said the detained lady hails from Riakimai Bosamaro location in Nyamira and had visited her sister on Friday last week.
“We suspect she ran away from her matrimonial home in Riakimai Bosamaro to come and terminate the pregnancy at the sister’s place,” observed the assistant chief.
Meanwhile, the remains of the infant were taken to Nyamira referral hospital mortuary awaiting autopsy.
