The boy was accused of murdering the infant in Uriri location on July 22, 2021 while living with his maternal aunt.
Dorcas Atieno, the mother of the deceased, told the court on Tuesday that her two-month-old baby died in the hands of the accused on the night of her father-in-law’s burial.
She told the court that she had left the child while sleeping in the house then when she went to check on her, only to find her dead with the accused inside the house.
Paul Oloo, the medical officer who performed postmortem on the body of the child at the Yala sub-county hospital mortuary confirmed the cause of death to be strangulation.
He told the court that there were blood clots in both nostrils and on the upper lip of the infant and a ligature mark on the mid part of the neck, indicating that the victim died from suffocation as a result of strangling.
The accused’s advocate however pleaded with the court for leniency telling the court that the boy had changed.
Siaya High Court Lady Justice Roseline Aburili, however, slapped him with the three-year probation during which he will live with his parents but will be reporting to the probation officer occasionally and is not supposed to leave the village without permission from the probation officer.
He will continue with his education as he serves the probation sentence until he turns 18 when his sentence will be reviewed. BY CITIZEN DIGITAL