BY MWANAHABARI REPORTER
Detectives have arrested a woman who was accused of torturing and killing a three-year-old child, identified as David Ndung’u, left under her care by the mother.
The incident broke the internet last week after journalist Lynn Ngugi highlighted the story in her Youtube channel.
The mother of David , Maureen Njoki, who had travelled to Saudi Arabia to look for a job gave the chilling account of how her child was mistreated, beaten and which led to his death in the hands of her friend.
Reports indicated that the lifeless body of David was dumped at Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital in February after he succumbed to injuries to his head.
According to the police, the baby had burns on the buttocks, hands and legs and the neck region.
The suspect, Phyllis Njeri, is alleged to have tortured the little boy to death, at her house in Kwa Maji area within Mowlem, in Kamukunji sub-county, before taking the body to Mama Lucy – and disappearing into the woods.
Detectives drawn from Crime Research & Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) and the Homicide branch and DCI officers from Nairobi arrested the suspect at a village near the Kenya-Tanzania border.
The suspect was arrested alongside her husband Jockson Ngui as they planned to cross to Tanzania.
According to the boy’s mother, details of the gory murder was narrated to her by her elder son Peter Ndung’u, aged 6 years, whom she had also left in the care of Njeri.