Infanticide: Alarm over rising number of mums killing their babies

Many mothers struggle with the demands of parenting (Photo: Shutterstock)

Lost in the din of ordinary struggles and scandals pounding the Kenyan society, the story of Kenya’s growing cases of infanticide -- killing of healthy newborns -- is slowly being buried.

But the truth of it, like an eyesore, is sticking out for all to see. On January 21, two babies still fresh on their umbilical cord were retrieved from a trench in Laini Saba, Kibera.