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Why infanticide perpetrators receive ‘lesser’ penalties

By By PATRICK KIBET | Apr. 6, 2014

By PATRICK KIBET

Kenya: Kenyan criminal laws define infanticide as systematic and deliberate killing of children below 12 months by their biological mothers at birth or after.

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