“The other children were still playing outside the entrance of our building, but my daughter was not there. I asked them where she had gone and they said, she was just here,’” Wanjiku said.
Wanjiku went to Maragua police station but was told she had to wait for 24 hours before making a report.
At 11 am on Monday, some residents stumbled on her child’s body dumped in a swamp near the Githanja River.
“We were here wondering what else to do when a neighbor informed us that my child had been found. I went to the scene and confirmed it was her,” Wanjiku said.
Maragua town residents at the rental home of Florence Wanjiku, whose three-year-old daughter was found murdered on Monday. “Let him be paraded in the town when he is arrested. As a young parent, I am afraid of leaving my children alone, and sometimes they come home from school when you are away,” she said.
“Is he a father? Does he have a family? We’re angry that such a young life has been cut short in such a gruesome manner”.
County police commander Benjamin Kimwele confirmed that investigations have been launched into the case and that the actual cause of death will be established after the postmortem.
“We will also confirm whether she was defiled after the postmortem,” the police boss said.
