Nature can be unfair and for one woman in Kisii, the pain is still growing.
Teresa Mongina, 25, speaks of a heart-bleeding week since her two children were hacked to death.
The incident happened at their home in Kiobegi, Bobasi constituency, in Kisii county. Police have since arraigned Mongina's husband Nelson Momanyi for the slaughter.
"It is like am going through a long night with a bad dream," says Mongina.
The bodies of Glory and Michelle were discovered in a maize farm with deep cuts on their heads.
The young mother now relives pain whenever she talks of her adorable children.
Gory images flash through her memory as she recounts the scary episodes with a tinge of raw emotions.
"The images of Glory and Michelle being slaughtered by a person they had called dad all along haunt me, I just can't sleep," Mongina stated.
It all took place on Thursday morning when she had left for the farms.
She was accompanied by other children but for the two who were killed.
"It could have been better had my mind go numb and forget everything but this is not happening," Mongina narrated between sobs.
She checked in with three children into the embrace of a man with mental challenges.
He also had epileptic fits.
"He could change suddenly into a mad bull brandishing a panga ready to kill anybody on sight," said Mongina.
They were forced to tie him up one day when the fits became intense and wanted to kill her and the children.
Villagers pushed them to desperation and took him to a Pentecostal church for prayers which bore little fruit.
On the morning of the black Thursday, she was in the farms. Three other children except the murdered pair accompanied her.
An hour later, a sinister thought crossed her mind. She quickly rushed back home to check on the other children Her husband had locked himself in.
He however coldly assured her over the window that the children were safe when she inquired
Only after he opened the door and the sight of a bloodied panga leaning against the wall gave her telltale signs that all was not well.
Quickly, in silence, she scanned the empty beds before running out.
Fear and anxiety welled up within her.
Sooner one child returned with bad news.
Gloria was 'asleep' on the farm. Her mother found her dead.
Villagers who trooped helped find the body of Michelle.
The discovery confirmed her worst fears, her children were no more.
Villagers said theirs was a troubled marriage.
The man had suffered mental disturbances and could brandish a knife or panga on them on several occasions.
Mongina recalled an incident when the husband accused her of sleeping with his dad.
She said he suspected the children he had killed were sired by the father.
Mongina said it was all fiction fueled by other villagers who made him believe so.
"He could accuse me of sorts of vices which were lies. Like this day when he killed them, he said they were sired by his father," narrated Mongina.
She said the rumours gained traction because they often ran for cover to the old man's house whenever he turned chaotic.
"We slept in a separate house and at no time did we sleep in his father's house. All the children he killed were his seed," she said.
Life hasn't been the same since the gory slaughter of my children.
"Their voices, their joys and laughter were silenced in a manner most cruel," she said.
Mongina can't figure out living again with the man of his life after the tragedy.
"The last thing I want to hear is that we are sharing a room. . Every time I think about it, the thought of him leading the children into the farm and killing them one by one sickens me," she said.
She cries for justice but also seeks help to settle away from the home fearing the man may kill the other children too.
She is, however, yet to receive the money raised during the burial.
Some of the money was contributed by the local political leaders.
She now suspects someone wants it directed to his account.
"I need assistance so that I can get it to help me pay school fees for the children who remained," she said.
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