“Why I Slept With My Son”, Woman Tells All

Rift Valley, Kenya: 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 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. Continue after the cut....
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.
She had sex with the child on two occasions before a neighbour got wind of the matter and reported her to the chief. A charge sheet shows between January and October 2013 at Heshima in Nakuru North, she committed incest with the nursery school child. 

She was also found guilty of a second count of touching his private parts. The child, through the help of a neighbour, informed the police that his mother switched off the lights at night and forced him to undress before she proceeded with the act.

In prison attire bearing the letters SW (special watch), Wamboi accused her in-laws of being behind her tribulations and anguish.