Police in Kenya has arrested a 32-year-old mother who fed her only 2 children with a poisonous substance that resulted in their death as a result of her marriage breakdown.
A nurse by profession, Pherino Maero who lived with the children in outskirts of Mwiyala, in the outskirts of Kakamega town is said to have taken the lives of the children aged 7 and 9 on Saturday night, 5th of March.
After the act, she called her estranged husband to “come and collect the bodies of your children.”
Charles Akhonya, a watchman at the apartment where she lives, said the woman approached him at the gate at 3:00am, urging him to open the gate for the ‘husband’, but on following them to their house, he learned of two children lying dead on their bed.
The woman, who tried to stab herself with a knife on the neck, was rescued and is receiving treatment at a Kakamega hospital, even as police investigate the matter.
Neighbours said the woman has been paranoid since her marriage broke down and her husband went his way.
They added that she once took to smashing her husband’s car which was parked in their premises.
Kakamega Central OCPD Valerian Obore confirmed the incident, saying the suspect, who is in critical condition at the hospital, will be arraigned for murder upon recovery.
The bodies of the minors were removed to the Kakamega County General Teaching & Referral Hospital mortuary.
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