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Mother jailed for killing three-year-old daughter to get job in Nairobi

A woman who threw her three-year-old daughter into a river  has been sentenced to seven years in jail.

Carolyne Nyaboke, 21, who killed her daughter in order to secure a job as a house help, escaped the death penalty after a plea-bargain agreement with the State.

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