Kisii family is crying for justice after their first-born child, Emily Kerubo Nyakwara, was falsely sentenced to a five-year imprisonment in South Sudan.
According to Nation Africa reports, Emily was framed with “false charges” of child molestation last October and is already serving the sentence in the foreign land.
The family is now appealing to the Kenyan government to intervene and free their daughter, maintaining that the child molestation charges were trumped up by the parents and Juba-based authorities.
Kisii Woman Representative Doris Aburi has already raised the matter in Parliament and wants the government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to pursue the case.
“I am having blood pressure to manage and I have undergone a lot of stress. My daughter was my hope but Satan is a liar,” said Ms Mose.
The distraught mother explains that her daughter was convicted by a South Sudanese court in October last year.
Kerubo, 25, graduated with a degree in Education at the University of Nairobi in 2018.
On January 12, 2022, Kerubo left Kenya for South Sudan to teach kindergarten children.
She had been approached by an educationist-cum-businesswoman who owns Mercy British, an international school in Juba. She began her new job on January 17, 2022. Her job also entailed changing the children’s diapers.
While at it, she noticed that a baby girl in her class wore a ‘charm’ around her waist.
Kerubo reportedly informed the school’s management, which then advised the child’s parent to remove the chain.
The parent reacted by withdrawing her child from the school for a fortnight, and was hostile towards the teacher.
Upon the return of her daughter on February 28, 2022, the parent reportedly gave express instructions to all teachers to never change the toddler’s diaper.
This led the child to stay with a soaked diaper for long hours.
According to Ms Aburi, who on February 23, 2023 tabled the plight of Kerubo before the National Assembly, the parent later accused the teacher of molesting her child.
