A 33-year-old woman from Mwiki was on Wednesday charged with assault after she cut her daughter's fingers for allegedly stealing two cigarettes.
Nancy Wanjiku, a waitress at a hotel, was accused of causing injuries to her 13-year-old daughter using a knife on September 1.
She was also charged with giving false information to Police Constable Joseph Kimosop regarding the incident.
The court heard that her daughter had been assaulted by Kakori Mwaniki - Wanjiku's boyfriend.
The officer said he was made to record the false information in the occurrence book.
Police records indicated that the suspect stays with her daughter in Mwiki whom she left at home on the stated date.
"When she returned at around 10pm, she discovered that her two cigarettes were missing from the cupboard," the records stated.
Police said that Wanjiku insisted her daughter had smoked the cigarettes.
"She stabbed my fingers with the knife saying they are what I used to smoke her cigarettes," the complainant told police.
She also informed the police that her mother hit her head with 6kg gas cylinder which caused her to bleed profusely.
The minor sustained injuries on the head and cuts on her fingers.
"The suspect later forced the girl to accuse Kakori at the police station that he had beaten her up in the mother's absence," the court was told.
Wanjiku denied the charges before chief magistrate Heston Nyaga and was released on a cash bail of Sh15,000.
The case will be heard on January 25, 2017.
