This archive report was first published on 15 January 2020.
On September 11, 2019, a 16-year-old girl in Bandari village, Ganze Sub County, gave birth to a newborn infant and secretly buried it in a shallow grave.
Unfortunately, the infant's body was later dug up and eaten by dogs, sparking a police investigation and subsequent court proceedings.
The teenager, who had been pregnant without her parents' knowledge, dropped out of secondary school in the second term after her enrolment in Form One due to her pregnancy.
She initially denied the charges when she appeared in court on September 16, 2019, but later changed her plea to guilty, stating that she had delivered a stillbirth and decided to bury it without her parents' knowledge.
Her father, who was ill and unable to pay school fees, claimed he was unaware of the pregnancy, while her mother expressed anger and frustration at her daughter's actions.
On January 15, 2020, Kilifi Resident Magistrate Sifuna Daniel Sitati committed the teenager to serve her sentence at Kakae Girls Borstal institution in Malindi Sub County for three years.
