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Baby theft suspect arrested, charged after one dies at KNH

Child theft suspect Lydia Nyaboke Charles

Lydia Nyaboke Charles at the Milimani Law Courts on November 20, 2020 over the theft of two babies from Kisii County. 

Photo credit: Richard Munguti | Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • Fate apparently judged the suspect harshly as the babies fell ill during her journey to hand them over to a ‘buyer’.
  • Both women were arrested as they were unable to say who the children’s parents were and how they ended up with them.


A woman has been charged with stealing five-day old twins from Kisii County and taking them to Nairobi to sell them.

Fate apparently judged the suspect harshly as the babies fell ill during her journey to reportedly hand them over to a buyer.