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Help! My judge baby-daddy won't pay Sh120,000 child upkeep

woman wants the Ombudsman to intervene in her child's upkeep case against a top judge following judicial frustrations, which she says have denied their child a right to good parental care. The woman, who says she is jobless, told the Ombudsman that her attempts to contact the judge to support the child have been futile and that her file has gone missing several times during the proceedings to delay her appeal against a decision of the Children's Court.

She said it was also important to note that the case has been handled by three different judges, thus lacking continuity.
"I filed the above case in 2017, but to date, I have not received fair treatment by your court. A child support case cannot take six years in court, and the child is growing," she noted.
The woman, who lives in Nairobi's Huruma area, moved to the Children's Court in 2017, and since then, the case has been dragging in court.

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