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Mother held hours after giving birth

A woman was arrested and locked up at Nyeri Central Police Station hours after giving birth.

Monica Wamweru, 21, was picked up by a police officer, who was accompanied by her boss, on Wednesday morning at Nyeri County Referral Hospital. The first time mother was forced to leave her newborn in hospital, unattended.

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