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Woman who killed her children in order to get married sentenced to death

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A woman who drowned her two children in the hope of getting married has been sentenced to death by the High Court in Nanyuki.

Ann Wamaitha Kamau drowned four-year-old Victor Kamau and Ivone Njambi, 5, in a dam on May 30, 2014 at Wangwacii village in Sipili location, Laikipia County.

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