A Nairobi Court has sentenced former Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital social worker Fred Leparan to 35 years in jail for the offense of child trafficking.
At the same time the court slapped his co-accused in the case, Selina Adundo, also a social with a fine of Ksh 300,000 or serve two years in prison.
While sentencing the two convicts, senior principal magistrate Esther Kimilu said that she had considered the mitigation and submissions by both the prosecution and the defense and she was convinced that the first accused person packed empathy for people’s pain as per the probation report.
The magistrate further said she was satisfied with the aggravating circumstances to the commission of the offence.
He said Leparan, as a person who had worked for long in community service, ought to have protected the children.
“He lacks empathy for them and was not remorseful,” the magistrate said.
“I sentence the first accused as follows, 3 years count in count of conspiracy to traffic children, count 2,3, and 4 to 30 years for trafficking three children and count 6 and 7 to two years for child negligence,” Magistrate Kimilu ruled.
The court further clarified that Leparan will only serve 25 years in custody and serve 10 years on probation under close supervision.
She ordered the children to be released for adoption. The two were convicted of child trafficking and negligence after a BBC report exposed them two years ago.
