House help arrested for ‘stealing’ baby

Police in Nyeri have arrested a house help who allegedly ‘stole’ a baby from his parents in

Monicah Gathari with her husband Antony Ngugi after they were reunited with their lost baby in Labura Sub-Location, Mweiga in Nyeri County. The baby had been reported stolen by their house help on Tuesday from their Nakuru home. The suspected will be arraigned in court Thursday.

Police in Nyeri have arrested a house help who allegedly ‘stole’ a baby from his parents in Nakuru.

The 11-month old baby boy was reportedly stolen from Pangani Estate in Nakuru town Wednesday and later found in Mweiga, Nyeri County.

The house help identified as Sheryl Saula Nyangero, 19 is said to have been left with the baby together with two other children aged six and four when she disappeared with the younger one on Tuesday.

According to the area OCPD Kipruto Kemboi, the baby’s mother Monicah Gathari reported about the baby’s disappearance at Bondeni police station, Nakuru.

An intensive search for the baby was then launched.

“The mother reported that when she returned home from work on Tuesday to breastfeed her baby she only found her other two children.

Upon inquiry she was told that the house help was seen with her little one boarding a boda boda.

Alarmed, she reported at Bondeni and gave out the suspect’s phone number which was then tracked.

PHONE SIGNAL TRACKED

“By yesterday evening her last phone signal was tracked in Nyahururu and around noon today (Wednesday) the signal was located at Labura Sub-Location, Mweiga and so we surrounded the place and got her in a house,” said Mr Kemboi.

Mr Kemboi said they later established that the maid had just arrived at her alleged husband’s home who works as a caretaker at a farm in the area.

Upon questioning, the OCPD said, the suspect claimed to have liked the baby and she was “just taking a walk with him” and that she was planning to go back to her employer.

“We found her with the baby in what we learnt that was her husband’s house in his employer’s compound. She claimed that she had an attachment to the baby and she was just taking a walk with him,” said the police boss.

The OCPD said they called the baby’s parents to identify the child and after which the house help together with her said husband were arrested and are being held at Mweiga Police Station and would be arraigned in court Thursday.