Kibera Law Court has charged a househelp accused of abducting a child under her care at the Department of Defense (DoD) staff quarters in Kilimani, Nairobi County.
Appearing before Kibera Chief Magistrate Anne Mwangi on Tuesday, Faith Omonya, 23, pleaded not guilty.
According to police, the accused abducted the minor code-named FK on September 3 after she fled from her employer’s home while the child’s mother was at work.
“The child’s mother, Fedilia Atyang, a medical worker at the Ministry of Defense, had left her son in Omonya’s care but received a call from a neighbour at 5pm alerting her of an unattended older daughter who had returned from school,” read the police report.
Further, the court heard that Atyang said she had contacted the househelp at 11 am of the day of her disappearance. The househelp had assured Atyang that her son was doing well and that she had fed him.
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However, she returned home at 5 pm to find the househelp missing and her older daughter unattended to, as alluded to by the neighbor.
Additionally, police revealed that the suspect had picked up all her belongings and switched off her phone.
A police investigation uncovered that the suspect had traveled to her rural home in Lukhakha, Bungoma, where she arrived with a child from Nairobi.
The police also traced the child who matched the description of the missing boy and reunited him with his mother.
The court granted the suspect a Kes 200,000 bond with a requirement to present a contact person.
The case will be mentioned on September 16.
