Pregnant school girl

By MN Reporter

A student from Radienya Secondary School in Migori county is being held by police for killing her three day old child by drowning in river Migori.

Police are holding the girl who hails from Milimani estate, in the outskirts of Migori town, after the father a boda boda rider only identified as Siginga rejected the child.

The form three student, aged 17,  was to join form four next year after being promoted.

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“We found the dead child by banks of the river after it couldn’t be swept down stream because of low water volume,” Sylvester Otieno, a villager said.

Villagers suspected the girl, and when they asked her she refused insisting her child who was born at St. Barnabas Clinic in the estate was taken to the father.

“We asked the father who refused and fled away, when we threatened to call police the girl and the family owned up to the heinous act,” Otieno said.

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Oruba Ragana chief John Okombo said the family tried to hurriedly bury the infant, but it failed as police invade the home and arrested the girl as the first suspect.

“She will be arraigned in court on Monday including more suspects as police are investigating. The body was taken to mortuary,” Okombo said.