46-year-old granny narrates why she defiled her 5year old son.

A mother, who was sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Nakuru court on March 7 for
having an ‘affair’ with her five-year-old son, says she was forced to commit incest because adolescent girls snatched her lovers away twice, leaving her dejected and hopeless. Speaking to The Nairobian at Nakuru GK prisons, where she had just begun her jail term, Mary Wamboi Muriuki, 46, a grandma and mother two older children aged 24 and 22, narrated, amid sobs, how circumstances left her exposed after her husband died in 1998. Attacked and raped Wamboi claimed that a person she knew and respected attacked and raped her while she was walking home one evening from a farm where she was employed as a casual labourer. She adds that she got pregnant and later gave birth to her last-born son who is now causing her sleepless nights on the prison’s cold floors.

Attacked and raped Wamboi claimed that a person she knew and respected attacked and raped her while she was walking home one evening from a farm where she was employed as a casual labourer. She adds that she got pregnant and later gave birth to her last-born son who is now causing her sleepless nights on the prison’s cold floors. During the interview, Wamboi who said she is still a staunch Christian and a member of Rehoboth church, said she committed the offence out of anger and stress. “My relatives rejected me, but as I tried to survive on my own, two young women ran away with my lovers forcing me to turn on my son,” she confessed with tears of regret flowing down her wrinkled cheeks.