This archive report was first published on 30 June 2020.
On June 29, 2020, Faith Muthoni, 45, and Purity Wambogo, 42, appeared before Senior Resident Magistrate Tony Kwambai in Embu, Kenya, and pleaded guilty to trespassing into a farm at Kathangari Village in Embu.
The two women were charged with trespassing into the Frankenstein farm, where they picked black-jack without the owner's permission.
According to the prosecution, the two women were found in possession of black-jack, which they had picked from the farm to feed their rabbits.
However, in their defence, the two women told the court that they only picked the black-jack to feed their starving rabbits.
They were found in act by a farm manager, who then reported the matter to the Manyatta police station.
As a result, the two women were arrested and arraigned in court, where they pleaded for leniency from the court.
Senior Resident Magistrate Tony Kwambai ordered that the two women serve two-month non-custodial sentences and warned them to stay out of trouble lest they finish the sentences in jail.
