A heartless mother has been accused of causing the death of her baby.
The babyis alleged to have died of starvation after her mother refused to breastfeed her because her nose was on the upper side of her face.
She was born on Sunday, August 27 with facial deformities in Kenya.
According to DailyNation, the mother, Ms Mariam Mwakombo, 22, refused to breastfeed her because she was afraid. The baby cried for hours after birth due to hunger and later died at night.
Mariam Mwakombo told DailyNation She frightened me.
I have never seen such a human being.
” Ms Mwakombo’s husband, Hassan Kitoto, said he too couldnot comprehend why God gave him such a child.
“I am equally scared. I have never seen such a human being. Whatever the elderswill decide let it be,” he said.
Ms Mwakombo had only attended two antenatal care clinics at a public hospital in Kilifi before giving birth prematurely to the baby at home.
The villagers and family members wanted to throw the baby in a dungeon to let the ‘gods’ take care of her. But after she died they buried her outside her parents’ home to ward off bad omen associated with such a child.
Mwakombo said: “Hospitals are very far and I couldn’t afford the clinic at privatehospitals.
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