Police in Margat, Baringo County arrested a househelp who is claimed to have seriously injured her employer after killing her son.
According to the police report, Lydiah Jelagat Kipng’etich was arrested following the incident that took place on September 24, 2021 after engaging the police in a cat and mouse game.
It is alleged that the househelp attacked the family in their home during the night while the employer’s husband was away on duty.
Jelagat armed herself with a panga and a rungu, crept stealthily into the master bedroom of her employer in the dead of the night, heinously attacking her in her sleep.
“As she raised distress calls amidst excruciating pain with blood oozing from her arms, head and neck, the woman did now know that her 7-year-old firstborn son had been the first target of the household,” part of the police report read.
The neighbors responded to the distress as the suspect escaped from the scene of crime.
“It was in the process of getting the woman ready for the hospital that the neighbors stumbled upon the boy’s cold body hidden under the bed. He had some blood oozing from the mouth, with no physical injuries,” the police statement read.
As the injured victim was being treated at Nyandarua County & Referral Hospital where the boy’s body was also preserved for autopsy, the manhunt for the suspect commenced.
The suspect was nabbed hiding in a friend’s house Kongasis and escorted to Marigat Police Station awaiting arraignment at Kabarnet Law Courts on Tuesday.
The 24-year-old househelp had been offered a nanny’s job in the home of a Rumuruti based prison warder.
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