Mercy Wangui Muhoro, a woman accused of abandoning her two year old child and going deep into alcohol, has pleaded guilty to the charges.
The woman however in her mitigation told the court that the father of her children does not take good care of their children.
“The man who sired with me children does not care, I don’t have nothing to do, I committed the offence because of stress,” she told the court.
The charge sheet says that she committed the offence on diverse dates between October 17 and 23 in Uthiru Cooperation area in Dagoreti within Nairobi County.
She pleaded guilty to the charges before Kibera senior principal magistrate Esther Boke when the matter came up for plea taking.
According to the court factsheet read by prosecutor Nancy Kerubo, Muhoro failed to take good care of the child and exposed the child as the person in dire need of protection contrary to the penal code.
Kerubo told the court that the accused person dumped her child at the elder Sister's neighbor home and went missing.
“The accused person is a mother of two. She took her two-year-old child to her elder sister's neighbor and dumped her there, it was on October 17 but by October 20, she had not taken the child," she told the court.
The child was later picked by the accused person's elder sister and on October 23, since she had not turned up, she went and reported the matter to the police.
"On October 23, a report was filed at the Kabete police station and the accused person was spotted in Muthiga area at a club where she was arrested and later arraigned ," said Kerubo.
Kerubo told the court that the woman was deep lost in alcoholic drinks and would drink day and night.
Boke directed that the matter will proceed next week for more directions.
