There was drama in Thika’s Majengo Estate
after A middle-aged woman was on
Wednesday, March 23, frog-matched across
the streets carrying a placard for allegedly
selling off young girls to older men for
sexual exploitation.
This woman identified as Mary Wanjiru
Karume was cornered in her house, jerked
out and paraded along the streets before
they attempted to force her to confess her
evil deeds publicly.
According to the victim who is not yet 18,
the woman, who is a personal friend and
business neighbour to her mother, lured her
to the said man last week Monday, where
they bought some soft drinks. Two days
later, she and her auntie (still a minor) were
invited to a Thika Hotel where they were
supposed to have a good time.
“Mama Ken (Wanjiru) introduced us to this
man and told us that he was very rich and
could buy us anything we wanted. She
asked us not to ignore his approaches but
instead take advantage of this ‘rare
opportunity’ to squander his money. Later
on Friday, he invited us for a meal at a
Thika hotel where we were supposed to
spend the evening,” said the girl.
Luckily for the minors, someone known to
the family spotted them and called their
mother. The mother tricked them into
leaving the facility in a hurry by claiming
that there had been an emergency at home
and they needed to come very urgently.
It was at that moment that the girls boarded
a tuktuk and rushed home to receiving the
shocking news of the danger they were
exposing themselves in.
Upon interrogation, the girl revealed that the
man had promised to foot the bill for her
birthday party bash that happens to be this
week, to a tune of Ksh. 30,000.
After her mother’s warning, she blocked the
man’s calls and have never communicated
since then. Her phone call logs shows that
he attempted to reach her twice after that
meeting.
The girl’s mother was short of words as she
could not imagine that her neighbour and
friend could do that to her. She claims that
on the material day, Wanjiru kept
monitoring her movements, may be to keep
track and warn the man in case something
unusual happened.
“We have worked with her for quite a long
time and I cannot believe that she can
scheme such an evil plan against my own
daughter,” she said.
However, she has declined to press any
charges against the woman or the man
since, according to her, her daughter was
not harmed.
“Since God has saved my children from this
danger, I am not willing to press any
charges against them,” said the mother.
When confronted to respond, Wanjiru
admitted to introducing the girls to the man
but she claimed that she only showed them
the man and warned them that he was
dangerous because he was HIV positive.
“When I was taking them to him I wanted to
show him to them and warn them that he
was not a good person and he was fond of
luring young girls into bed,” said Wanjiru.
Source: The star Kenya
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