The mother of three-year-old Junior Sagini, the boy whose eyes were brutally gouged out by unknown assailants in Ikuruma village, Kisii County, has been arrested.
Maureen Nyaboke was arrested on Sunday, December 18 at the Kisii Eye Care Hospital after she resurfaced for the first since the incident occurred on Thursday, December 15.
Nyaboke was briefly detained at Nyachwa Police Station before she was transferred to Rioma Police Station for further questioning on the incident.
On the fateful day, Nyaboke reportedly left Sagini and his 7-year-old sister in the care of their father and paternal grandmother, to go and work as a bar attendant in Nyamakoroto, Nyamira County.
Baby Sagini was attacked when he went to fetch water in a river in the company of his sister.
Mary Kemunto, the boy’s aunt recounted: “Ilikuwa saa kumi na moja ikiendelea mpaka usiki…wakaanza kutafuta mtoto, hawakumpata. Ndio mtoto wa ndugu yangu akaenda akaita nyanya akamwambia tumepata mtoto kwa shamba hana macho.”
Nyaboke will be arraigned today and be charged with parental neglect.
A form three student, a man and a woman have also been arrested in connection to the brutal incident.
