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A Kenyan woman who gave away her child to a Chinese man immediately after delivery at the Mombasa Hospital has been arrested.
27-year-old Josephine Kariuki Muthoni was arrested by Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) alongside a Chinese and a Singaporean for child trafficking.
Muthoni delivered the child on July 18th and instructed officials at the hospital to hand the baby to a Chinese couple, Mahesh Chudasama and Neo Kian Fu.
“Officers went to the hospital to inquire about the information and met the mother at the maternity ward and she recorded a statement,” DCI Director George Kinoti said.
In her statement, Muthoni said she made an agreement before an advocate to carry the child for the foreigners for Sh30,000 per month. She said she received Sh28,500 monthly for the entire gestation period and was to receive a final sum of Sh500,000 after documentation and release of the child through court procedure to the intended parents.
Kinoti said two lawyers produced a copy of a deal between Muthoni and the Chinese couple.
“They produced a copy of a letter from the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board allegedly signed by its chairman, Prof George Magoha, and dated November 11, 2016. The letter authorised the doctor the expansion of the spectrum of assisted reproductive technology (ART) service in Mombasa,” the DCI stated.
The 12-day-old boy has been taken to the Baby Life Rescue Centre pending an application for protection and care at the children’s court in Mombasa.
The suspects are facing charges of child trafficking and unlawful adoption of a child.
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This is so legal and moral in every level. It's legal surrogacy.
This is not unusual. It may be illegal in Kenya but it is not unusual.
This IS a mere Surrogate motherhood, for the child to be transferred to the intented biological parent. Me thinks it's perfectly legal if there is a contract as in meeting of the minds. Let the KAI SHENG TAKE THEIR SON HOME.
Umaskini umamfanya mama huyu kufanya alivyofanya na huku Ndugu Duale na wanabunge wengine wanataka kuongezwa mishahara yao!
@imara if u leave in united state of Sidon n gormolla u know this is a tred there.Surrogacy is practiced globally especially in the west so as guys commented above it is not unusual.Personally I know 3 Kenyans 2 in Washington DC n 1 in Chicago who did the surrogate thing using other Kenyans in states.So it has nothing to do with poverty or mpigs.Why do we add politics in everything???Bure kabisa
unless the legal team did not do their homework sioni kesi hapo she was doing madoubles juu monthly 28k na normal job inaleta doo..sawa it was her wish.
Being surrogate is not a crime. Michael Jackson did it?
Even if MJ had not done it, it would still not be a crime...it would still be legal....just saying...
So everything Michael Jackson did is
legal.... Ha
Ndugu @Mkenya Halisi. Nimesikia yote uliyosema Ndugu lakini ningependa ujue mambo kama haya siyo mila zetu. Je, sisi kweli tunao Uafrika wowote uliobaki ndani yetu?
One of these 2 dudes might be the father of the child. The lady is a surrogate mother.
@imara hapo I agree with yo waafrica tumepoteza mira zetu kabisa.Twafuatafuata Wazungu na uzungu tukifikiria ndio njia Sawa naniunjinga mwingi kabisa.Sihata waona twaomba mungu wao,pope kila siku.Sisi waafrika we had our own Gods before this idiots brot Christianity n brainwashed us btw 1890-1910.Oooh they even says they discovered mount Kenya or Lake Victoria Which they were there with our forefathers.Why r our pple so idiotic @imara.We As Africans need to introduce Our religion called Africanity.
@Mkenya Halisi. Mimi na wewe tunakubaliana sana kwa mambo ya kuwaheshimu mababu zetu kwa kufuata machache kama haya:
1.Kurudia majina ya mababu zetu. Sielewi kwa nini mtu anachukua jina la watu waliotutenganisha na mababu zetu. Jambo la majina tayari nimeshakamilisha. Nilipoacha kuwa Mkristo, jambo la kwanza ilikuwa kuyatupa majina ya Wayahudi (Jews) yanayotoka kwenye kitabu cha mila za Wayahudi kinacoitwa "Biblia."
2. Watoto wangu hawajaenda kanisani au msikitini, nao pia wana majina ya mababu na nyanya zangu. Kwa hivyo, hawakubatizwa na pia hawatabatizwa! Ni lazima tuache kabisa kwenda kwenye makanisa ya kigeni.
3. Hata ingawa sikai Kenya, watoto wangu wanajua na pia wanasema lugha ya mababu na nyanya zangu. Pia hawaendi makanisa ya kigeni.
4. Waswahili husema, " Baba wa kambo si baba." Kwa hivyp, hata ingawa dini ya mababu zangu iliuawa na Wamisionari, nimekataa kabisa kufuata dini ya mtu mwingine ambaye si wa taifa langu dogo.
5. Watu wa kwanza kuyatupa majina ya Kikoloni katika nchi ya Kenya walikuwa "Ciana cia Gikuyu na Mumbi." Lakini sio wote waliofanya hivyo!
6. Kwa nini tuite jina la ziwa letu kubwa katika bara la Afrika "Lake Victoria?" Watu waliokaa karibu na ziwa hili walilita "Nyanza." Kwa hiyo ningependa kuona majina ya asili ya milima, mito, maziwa, yakiitwa majina ya kiasili. Ndugu, si unajua ya kwamba neno "Kenya" linatokana na Wakamba. Rebmann na Krapf walipofika Ukambani waliwauliza kwa Kikamba, " Kiima kiiya kitawa ata?" Yaani mlima ule unaitwaje? Wakamba wakajibu, " Kitawa Kii nyaa" maana yake mlima ule una nyaa yaani mbuni - ostrich. Halafu wakaandika "kenya."
Ndugu @Mkenya Halisi: Hatuwezi kuchoka kujikomboa kutokana na minyororo ya ukoloni ambayo sasa imo akilini mwetu! Kama Gitobu Imanyara alisema, "The price of freedom is constant vigilance." Yaani, ni lazima tuwe macho ili, tusije tukatawaliwa tena na watu wengime!
Mahesh Chudasama is not Chinese but a Muhindi. May be he facilitated the transaction for a cut.
OMG. My people, my brothers and sisters!!!!! Is this what we have turned into. We definitely need to slow down. Are we this corrupted???????????????????????????