A man who was caught on camera giving scotch whiskey to a 3-year-old baby was arrested and charged in court.
Officials from DCI’s Child Protection Unit arrested the suspect and his accomplice.
This is after the awful videotape shared by former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko, shocking netizens including detectives monitoring online activities, who escalated the information to undercover sleuths specialized in hunting down child offenders.
The detectives based at the DCI Academy in South B conducted a comprehensive analysis using their state-of-the-art software for tracking online child offenders and unmasked the identity of the suspects.
An undercover operation to arrest the suspects were laid and in the wee hours of today morning, Edward Ndirangu Muhuka, 22 and Abdulmajid Hassan Arafat, 19, were picked from their slumber in Thindigua, Kiambu and Pangani estates in Nairobi respectively.
Detectives have since established that the duo had just gatecrashed at a Christmas party to which their mutual friend had been invited and went on to outstay their welcome, and behaved savagely after the level of kindness that had been extended to them.
The little baby’s mother who retired to bed early after taking care of her guests was shocked after being woken up at 2 am by concerned friends, who saw the trending videotape and shared it with her.
The duo was arraigned at the Kiambu Law courts where the first accused pleaded guilty and the second accused not guilty to charges of failing to protect a child from drugs and substance abuse contrary to section 24 (1) (a) as read with section 24 (2) of the Children Act No. 29 of 2022.
The case will be mentioned on January 18, 2023, for the facts to be read to the first accused and a hearing date to be set.
Meanwhile, the second accused was given a bond of Sh200,000 and a surety of a similar amount.
