A Kerugoya resident has been arrested for killing her five-year-old son by throwing him into a river.
Nancy Nyawira, 23, admitted that she committed the offence at Rutui river
in Kerugoya town
on Friday evening.
Officers from Kerugoya police station arrested her on
Saturday
night.
Nyawira's neighbours alerted police after realising her child was missing, area OCPD Yawa Chome told the Star on phone.
"She confessed that she threw the kid in the river upon interrogation by detectives," he said, adding investigations would help them establish her motive.
Nywawira will be arraigned on Monday.
The woman's neighbours said she had seemed stressed for weeks but condemned her for killing an innocent child.
''Nyawira kept to herself but we did not suspect she would kill her son," said one identified only as Muthoni.
The county's disaster management team pulled the boy's body out of the river and took it to the morgue at
Kerugoya Level Four Hospital.
