Caroline Achieng, a 36-year-old woman from Kibera, has been searching for her 22-year-old daughter who ran away with her husband.
Achieng has been in agony for the past year, trying to trace her missing daughter, whom she conceived as a teenager. The daughter went missing after a family altercation that ensued from a revelation that she had an affair with her stepfather, got pregnant, and procured an abortion, all paid for by her mother after a well-choreographed trickery by the duo.
The daughter was last seen at the Kibera District Commissioner’s office when the family had been summoned over allegations that she had filed against her stepfather. According to Achieng, the family drama started in September 2013 when her daughter was unwell and frequently complained of stomach pain.
Abortion and Deception ¶
Achieng said she told her daughter to go for a checkup, and when she came back from the clinic, she told her she had been given ulcers medication. However, the girl’s illness kept recurring, and at one time, the stepfather proposed that he take her to a better hospital for a checkup, to which Achieng obliged.
It was later revealed that the stepfather had impregnated Achieng’s daughter and sourced a clinic where she was given abortion pills. Achieng felt cheated as her daughter revealed that she was sexually assaulted repeatedly by her stepfather since she was 8 years old and was impregnated later but never wanted her to know since her father threatened her.
Search and Agony ¶
Achieng has been living in agony over her failed marriage and being unable to trace her firstborn daughter, who lives with a man who broke her heart and left her with six other children to fend for. She has managed to secure a casual job with the National Youth Service but owes her landlord six months’ rent arrears due to her meager earnings, which she splits to cater for her children’s school fees and food.
The recovered account cited reporting by Nairobi News.
