Daring Father’s Attempt to Smuggle Daughter from KNH Fails

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‘’I’d rather die in jail than see my daughter spend one more day in a healthcare facility’’.

This must be a vow that this father had made when he resolved to sneak out his daughter from Kenyatta National Hospital over a bill of Ksh.56, 937 incurred by the baby who was admitted at the facility.

Boniface Murage Wangechi was on Monday arraigned at Milimani Law Courts and charged with attempting to smuggle his daughter out of the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) using a carrier bag, and attempting to defraud the hospital a sum of Ksh. 56,937.

According to court documents, Mr. Murage was stopped by the hospital security guards while leaving the hospital carrying something in a blue carrier bag.

The guards then forcefully opened the bag and discovered that he was carrying a baby.

More investigations then revealed that the baby was a patient at the hospital and that the accused was escaping with her to avoid paying the bill accumulated during the one-month admission period.

Appearing before Resident Magistrate Muthoni Nzibe, the 22-year-old man – who is the baby’s father – pleaded guilty to the charge saying he was indeed escaping with the baby because he was not financially able to settle the bill.

He also stated that he feared that his wife and child would remain in the facility forever if he did not act creatively.

According to him, the baby and her mother are still being held at the facility following his failed escape plan.

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The accused   remains in custody until Tuesday February 19, 2019, when facts of the case will be read in court before the magistrate passes a sentence.

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