This archive report was first published on 29 June 2020.
On Saturday afternoon, a tragic incident unfolded at Kabati estate in Naivasha, where a 42-year-old woman, Beatrice Mwende Kimotho, allegedly poisoned her four children to death.
According to police, the suspect locked the children inside her two-bedroom house and fed them food laced with poison.
The lifeless bodies of the four children, aged between two and eight years, were found lying on their beds with traces of vomit and blood on their mouths.
Police were called by the suspect's brother, Jackson Kimani, after he received photos of the slain kids on the family's WhatsApp group, along with a confession from his sister and a request for prayers.
Beatrice Mwende Kimotho had recently lost her job at a local non-governmental organization due to the Covid-19 pandemic and claimed in her suicide note that she was no longer able to feed her children.
Naivasha OCPD Samuel Waweru confirmed the incident, stating that police arrested the woman from her hideout in the neighboring Kayole estate and she is being detained at Naivasha Police Station pending investigations and arraignment in court next week.
