A woman and her daughter suspected to have stolen a three months old baby at Nairobi's Majengo estate have been arrested in Bungoma, after days of being trailed from Nairobi by Busia-based detectives.

The two were wanted in connection to a February 15 incident where another one-month-old infant was stolen from Marachi estate of Busia.

The baby was later found in the house of the mother’s 21-year-old son in the area.

According to police, in the latter incident, a 27-yr-old woman had left her child sleeping at her Marachi house, proceeding to draw water from a nearby borehole.

But on returning minutes later, she had been thunderstruck to find an empty warm bed, indicating that her baby had just been stolen.

The public cornered the young man, rescuing the baby before raining him with kicks and blows as they escorted him to the police.

Police searched the suspect’s house, therefrom confiscating a blank birth notification certificate and a payment receipt from a fictitious health facility-Comcare County Hospital.

Detectives handling the case later established the woman’s daughter who is a student at the Kenya Medical Training College in Bungoma, and who is married to a health worker at a Busia hospital, had months before terminated four months pregnant, but had let the husband believe he would soon be a father.

-The Star/ Cyrus Ombati