A woman who stole a two-week old baby from the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in 2018 has been sentenced to 5 years in prison.
While delivering the judgement, City Court Chief Magistrate Roselyn Oganyo said the prosecution, led by Willy Momanyi, had proved its case against Ednah Kemunto Mabuka.
Kemunto stole baby Prince Ouko from KNH on February 18, 2018, after she was asked by the infant’s father, Job Nyatiti Ouko, to check on his twins as he wheeled his wife to a room on the first floor of the hospital.
Mr Ouko told the press he rushed his wife and mother of the twins to KNH on the fateful day at around 2am but had to wait for hours as he was informed the room she was to be admitted in was “yet to be cleaned.”
At around 11:30 am, the room was finally available for use and he was asked to wheel in the wife to room 108.
It was then that he decided to ask two women who were in the queue with him to look after the twins but, about two minutes later, one of the women who was carrying his other child – Brighton – rushed toward him saying the other woman had taken off with Prince.