NAIROBI,Kenya, Mar, 29 – Felista Wairimu and Lydia Wanjiku Maina, two women said to have been on a fertility journey after years of failing to have children.
Their numerous visits to an In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) clinic in Parklands area, Nairobi, is said to have turned miraculous, at least for one of them, Wanjiku is said to have successfully given birth to triplets. Sadly however, her counterpart, Wairimu,whom she got close to,was not so lucky.
The two however are said to have formed a close bond, even forming a WhatsApp group as they monitored each other’s progress.
Recently however, Wairimu is said to have desperately ‘pressed’ her friend, Wanjiku,saying that she too wanted a baby.
Wanjiku is then allegedly said to have promised her friend that she will ‘get’ her a child. Days later after their conversation she called Wairimu who lives in Murang’a county and told her that she had a child for her. Asking to part with just Sh30,000 to receive the baby.
Little did she know at the time that the child was stolen from an unknown mother In Kayole. The child is said to have been just four days old. She was also given a birth certificate showing that she was the new mother.
The incident is said to have occurred on March 22,2022.
On Tuesday meanwhile, the two were arraigned at the Milimani law courts before Chief Magistrate Wendy Micheni.
They pleaded not guilty to three counts of conspiracy to commit a felony and child theft.
“You are both charged that on unknown dates in the year 2022 at unknown place within the republic of Kenya jointly with others not before court conspired to commit a felony namely child stealing in that you stole baby F.W. a child below the age of one month from an unknown parent” read the charge sheet in part.
The court was further notified that suspicions were raised after the accused, Wairimu, took the child to hospital after she had fallen ill and after nurses realized that she was not breastfeeding the child – They demanded a test to prove that she was indeed the mother.
Nurses at KNH came back with the results and it was established that she was not the mother and that the child was born of a different woman on March,18,2022.
She was shortly after arrested and detained the area police post with her accomplice arrested the next day.
The accused were released on a Sh500,000 bonds or a surety of a similar amount without an alternative of a cash bail.
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