Woman beaten for caning daughter

A woman was beaten up by neighbours on Wednesday morning for caning her daughter at Innercore estate of Eastland’s, Nairobi. The woman in her early thirties claimed that her seven-year-old daughter showed her disrespect by refusing to dispose a small heap of rubbish swept from the house off the veranda against her repeated pleas.

The neighbors who were awakened by the shrilling cries could not stand it any longer. Even distant neighbors drawn by the enlarging crowd at the gate prodded their way through the crowd to beat up the woman. After a short period of restraint, the woman’s friend held her as the other angered women hurled insults at her.

 The aggression from neighbors only seemed to fuel her fury against the daughter. She became hysterically angry and overpowered the interceding women. The daughter had fled outside the gate and a human barrier erected.