KNH’s Abducted Baby Receives Justice as Culprit is Sentenced to 5 Years

Baby Prince Ouko, who hit the headlines after he was stolen in 2018 at only two weeks old at Kenya’s largest referral hospital, Kenyatta, has finally received justice.

Baby Prince’s abductor, Ednah Kemunto Mabuka, has been sentenced to 5 years in Prison by City Court Chief Magistrate Roselyn Oganyo who noted that the prosecution had proved its case against the accused beyond any reasonable doubt.

The prosecution, led by Willy Momanyi, had availed sufficient evidence that led to baby Prince’s justice.

Kemunto was found guilty of having stolen baby Prince from Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) on February 18, 2018, when the baby’s father, Job Nyatiti Ouko, requested her to watch over his twins as he wheeled his wife to the first floor where she was required to be.

Mr Nyatiti narrated painfully how the events of the fateful day unfolded in a case that exposes the referral hospitals negligence as the father seems to have lacked help in wheeling his wife to the wards yet he had to twins to also carry to the same place.

Nyatiti says he took his wife to KNH at 2 am but was required to wait for hours for the room 108 where his wife was to be admitted to get cleaned. The room was availed to Nyatiti at around11:30 am and he was asked to wheel his wife in.

With twins and a mother who needed to be wheeled into the ward, Mr.Nyatiti had to request help from fellow patients he queued with, it happened to be two women whom each carried one child.

In a span of two minutes, Nyatiti says, one of the women who carried one of the twins only identified as Brighton went running to him saying the other woman who held baby Prince had run away with the child.

On informing KNH’s management, Kemunto was picked out by the facility’s CCTV carrying the child out of the hospital. She was seen dressed in a black skirt and red top.

Baby Prince’s abduction story caught the attention of media houses upon which a good Samaritan called from Kawangware informing of a woman who had had a miscarriage but reappeared home with a baby. The lady who had had a miscarriage turned out to be Kemunto with baby Prince and two days since the abduction incidence, the baby was reconnected with his parents and family.

Baby Prince was found in the same clothes he was wearing at his time of abduction when his father, Mr Nyatiti stormed Kemunto’s home accompanied by his brother and the area chief.

Kemunto had earlier pleaded guilty but later detoured and pleaded not guilty and was released with 600,000-shilling cash bail.

Kemunto is set to spend her next five years in jail for having abducted two-week-old baby Prince.

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