Police officers in Buuri Constituency of Meru County have arrested three men who are alleged to have repeatedly defiled a one and half-year-old child leading to her death.

Detectives investigating the matter said further investigations are underway and the suspects will be arraigned in court after the medics are through with the DNA test to have water tight evidence to nail the culprits who defiled the minor.

According to Ann Kathambi 17, the mother of the defiled child she had domestic disagreements with her husband John Mwiti 25, which forced her to run from their house and spent the night in a nearby bush.

According to Kathambi who was flanked by police officers and her parents and the Meru Levelk Five Hospital where DNA tests were being carried out, the incident happened at Kinoria Akuru village in Nkando location.

“We have been living together for the last two years and differences started after one year into our marriage. I had gone to the hospital and left the child in the custody of the father but when I came back he started chasing me with his brothers threatening to kill me because I had left the child behind”, said Kathambi.

Kathambi said his husband confirmed that he had killed the child and did not have any regrets of doing so.

“I hid in a nearby bush when I heard him saying this rubbish needs to die and come out of this world. He also said he can throw the child away and I later saw him walking away in the night with a torch and when I came back in the house the following morning I found the child dead”, she said.

According to Florence Karambu the deceased child’s grandmother, the family had been embroiled in disputes for three days until when the husband and his brothers chased him away with his brothers.

“After they chased her they went ahead and defiled my grand daughter. I feel bad as a parent and as a mother of two other children”, she said.

She defends her role as a parent saying she had brought up her daughter in good manners until when she got engaged in a relationship with the suspected killer father and found out they were engaged in sexual relationships and finally leaving their home in secret to go and live as husband and wife.

“As parents we had also disciplined her but they went away and at last we never bothered them because we had tried our best”, she said.

According to Mary Kirima a representative of the national council of NGOs representing upper Eastern they only expect that justice will be done against the three culprits once investigations are through.

“I am worried by our men folks in the society, even if you are a man and you are left with custody of a girl child you have to take care of that child. In the recent past there have been many similar cases of rape in this area”, said Kirima.

She added that illicit brews are a main contributing factor where she asked women to take care of their children and be cautious of those whom they live their children with.

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