A 23 year old woman, Gentrix Kaleha Njoroge is seeking justice after she was assaulted and badly injured by a man whom they have lived together with for seven months.
Kaleha is nursing cut and burn wounds all over her body at her home in Elukho village, East Butsotso ward of Lurambi constituency.
The injuries are alleged to have been inflicted on her by a boyfriend of seven months who after the incident locked her in his house for two weeks without medication.
According to Kaleha, the accused Ibrahim Ombete Babu abducted her on her way home days after she packed and left his house in which they were living together as wife and husband after a misunderstanding erupted.
Kaleha says that she could not put up with the man any longer after he arrived home with a new wife and wanted both to share the one roomed house.
Ombete attacked her with a machete and left her for dead with panga bruises all over her body.
Kaleha’s mother, Speta Ashikoye claims that it is not the first incident and that the accused takes advantage of her daughter’s mental challenge to use and dump her whenever he wishes.
According to her, the accused once injured her daughter chased her away only to return when she got healed.
She added that their efforts to seek justice for the injured has been futile and have given up on the process suspecting that the accused has ties with police officers in the region.