How 15-year-old Kiambu girl killed her siblings

The juvenile admitted to having committed the murders, before Kikuyu sub-county children’s officer.

Piece by: CYRUS OMBATI
Crime

• She borrowed a phone from one of the teachers and called her parents where she informed them of the murder.

• The juvenile admitted to having committed the murders, before Kikuyu sub-county children’s officer.

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Crime: police barrier
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In a confession by a minor at Kikuyu Police station, the suspect confessed to detectives how she murdered her kin aged 15 months, five years and seven years between February and July 2021.

The form one student allegedly murdered her three siblings and a cousin in the past one year.

She also confessed to have murdered her cousin who was 20 months old, at Gathiga village, Kabete Sub County, by drowning him in a well in their compound sometimes last month.

She told police that she went to visit her grandmother at Gathiga in Kabete sub-county during the school mid-term holidays on August 4, 2022.

While there, her cousin aged one year, eight months disappeared mysteriously while under her care within the compound of her grandmother on August 16.

The mother to deceased boy was in her shop which is just at the gate of the compound, when she noticed that she could not see her son.

She then asked the accused person on the whereabouts of her son and she denied seeing the boy.

Locals say they searched for him within and outside the compound but they could not find him.

His father was informed over the matter and when he arrived home, they decided to open the water well.

Upon checking inside, they found the body of the boy and removed it.

The accused girl went back to her parents’ home in Waithaka on August 18 before being escorted to school the following day.

According to her confession report, while in school on August 20, 2022 at night, she borrowed a phone from one of the teachers and called her parents.

She informed them that she was the one who was responsible for the murders.

Subsequently, her parents went to the school the following day and she confessed having murdered the boy identified as Martin Kiogora in front of teachers by drowning him in water well.

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