This archive report was first published on 20 July 2019.
On Thursday, Brisbane Supreme Court's Justice Martin Burns sentenced Esther Arunga to 10 months in prison for lying to Australian police about her husband's role in the murder of their three-year-old son, Sinclair. However, she was immediately freed on parole after pleading guilty.
Speaking at her home in Mbeme, Kisumu County, Rosemeg Wambita, Quincy Timberlake's mother, expressed her disappointment with the sentence, stating that it was too lenient and that Arunga deserved the maximum 25 years stipulated in the law.
‘I did not expect that going by what she said but I know the good Lord is watching over my son. I have no reason to celebrate Arunga’s victory concerning the murder case against my son even if she is happy. She knew she was going to win the case from the beginning,’ Wambita said as quoted by Nairobi News.
Wambita also accused Arunga of destroying Timberlake's family with his former wife Rose Mueni, and of taking away her son, leaving his first family to suffer back in Kenya.
Arunga had confessed to finding Timberlake hitting their son on the stomach in the bathroom on the night of June 17th, 2014. An autopsy later revealed that the boy died as a result of severe blunt force, inconsistent with a fall.
