Man arrested for the murder of his 6-year-old By Hanging.
Touchaheart Nigeria reports that the police in Murang’a, Kenya, have detained a middle-aged man accused of the murder of his 6-year-old stepson.
The man who is identified as Charles Githua from Kiru Mathioya allegedly committed the crime on Sunday, September 11.
His wife Nancy Mumbi said that he had called to ask for some time with her two kids.
Mumbi also disclosed that they split up approximately a month ago as a result of the man’s threats to kill her and the kids. She said that her deceased child wanted to leave his stepfather but she cajoled him to stay.
She said;
“He called me Sunday morning and told me he is waiting for the children at the usual place promising to bring them back.
“He has been picking the children on Sundays to go buy them sweets or cakes so I had no reason to worry about their safety.”
Mumbi said few hours later, the man called her and the child told her they were in the forest.
She said;
“The third time he called me, I heard a child crying at the background. I got worried fearing he might have hurt them.
“He told me he has finally fulfilled my wish which I didn’t understand.”
Mumbi claimed that the man only brought back one child that night and withheld the location of the other.
The mother got in touch with the neighbors and family members who had started a search for the missing child. On September 12 in the late afternoon, the boy’s body was discovered hanging from a tree on the man’s property.
She said;
“He had bitting marks allover his body and he appeared to have been strangled to death.”
Mathioya OCPD Pauline Mwangi said the officers are interrogating the suspect to know what transpired.
