A middle aged woman from United States of America has moved to the Milimani Courts in Nairobi seeking custody of her six year old daughter.
Emely Sarita is seeking full custody of the minor after her ex-husband Ndiritu Wachira Muriuki moved with her to Kenya without her consent.
“I came to Kenya two weeks ago to pick my daughter with the court order from the Juvenile court, but my Ex-husband is now on the run, I really need to be with my daughter, he flew with my daughter without her American passport from New Jersey,” Emely narrates.
According to Sarita she divorced her husband in 2020 after the marriage was riddled with violence and physical assault.
“We officiated our marriage with the defendant on the 22nd March 2016 and after we were blessed with a daughter. During the union the accused would assault me in the presence of the minor and sometimes eject me from the house with minor,” reads an affidavit sworn by Emely .
The embattled husband is said to have abducted the minor from New Jersey and fled to kenya.
The woman arrived in Kenya in September this year and her attempts to have access to her daughter have been futile.
“I have not met may daughter since I came to Kenya, he did not come along with the daughter and now on the run,” Affidavit further reads.
She has made a passionate appeal to the former husband to honor the court order and produce their child.
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Let him surrender the child then after that makes a mutual reconciliation.
Mmmm , that’s a really interesting story
Perhaps the Child could share equal amount of times both Kenya and US.
Seems only the best way to go !
Kenya is beautiful and has all that the good child upbringing requires and also has a rich African culture
The US is also good , though not so good , especially with the school mass shootings and all of that … This could also explain Rihanna and husbands Barbados child raising episode .
Watching closely on the sidelines to see how this one unfolds …mmmm
The children belong to the father
he need to give you back the child
he need to give you back the child
Don’t give up cos for a daughter to be with the dad at such a tender age is unheard of .Take heart my daughter used to be stolen while one year many times.I used to use a motorbike to follow her but God me victory.I succeeded in rearing her and he saw after graduation at the University. God bless you in your pursuing your daughter.
If true such,an act constitutes a gross violation of the minor’s rights by the supposed defendant and child’s errant father under the pertinent domestic, continental as well as international convenants for the protection of the rights of the child. The errant father should be charged under the anti-trafficking in persons act as the object of this misadventure is most obviously associated with an inhumane intent to hold on to the poor minor as a pawn in order to forcibly compel the child’s mother from whom he is presently estranged to revert to him.His actions are no doubt a blot on our benign national character.