A woman has been charged with child theft after a friend she took to her sister–in–law’s house disappeared with her four-year-old child. Peletina Andeke Shitera is accused of jointly stealing the child from Caroline Jelimo – her brother’s wife – with the other woman in Mlango Kubwa area in Pangani, Nairobi on March 1. Shitera went to Jelimo’s house with the said friend and begged her to house the friend for the night promising she will collect her the next day. She reportedly told Jelimo that she was headed to Pangani police station to report the incident. During investigations, Shitera reportedly told police that she had met the missing woman suspected to have left with her brother’s child the same day and knew nothing about her.

Source: Daily Nation March 04, 2021 06:00 UTC