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Mother who killed son to travel to Saudi to serve 10 years in prison

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Happy Mwenda before Justice Ann Ong'injo at the Mombasa High Court. [Joackim Bwana, Standard]

A woman who strangled her one-year-old son to death to facilitate her travel to Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by the High Court in Mombasa.

Happy Mwenda was charged with the murder of her son, whom she strangled and subsequently disposed of in a septic tank, all in an effort to secure the opportunity to work in Saudi Arabia.

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