By Nation Correspondent
Posted Tuesday, August 23 2011 at 22:00
Posted Tuesday, August 23 2011 at 22:00
A teenager was on Tuesday jailed for 28 months for assaulting his mother.
He beat up his mother because she failed to provide him with firewood to stoke his fire.
The teen assaulted his mother, Emily Wangui, on August 16, at Shauri village in Nyandarua North District and described her as lazy and uncaring.
The teen arrived home drunk and demanded firewood since it was biting cold.
“His mother sent her grandchild which incensed his son who claimed she had demeaned him. He promptly kicked and rained blows on her as she screamed for help,” said prosecutor Paul Omweri.
The boy pleaded for leniency saying he was a father of one and a sole breadwinner of his young family.
“What you did is an abomination in our society that cannot be condoned. You must be punished to become a lesson for other like-minded teenagers,” said the magistrate while sentencing him.
Meanwhile, Mr Robert Rotich Tuwei was jailed for two years for slashing his brother Stephen Kiplagat on the right arm with a panga following a domestic dispute.
Mr Kiplagat had responded to distress screams emanating from Mr Rotich’s wife who was being ‘disciplined’. He managed to separate the two but was slashed on the arm for meddling in marital matters.
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