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Mother turns to DNA test in search for KDF son missing for 19 years

Judge gavel. [Courtesy/GettyImages]

Joysephine Wangari Njuguna held on to hope, praying to the gods to keep her son safe and that she would one day find him alive.

That hope slowly faded as she and her late husband, Elijah Njuguna George, went from one police station to another, then to hospitals and finally to morgues in search of their son Charles Njuguna. 

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