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26th April 2023
04:14pm BST
A mother is accused of stabbing her two-year-old daughter to death before eating her liver whilst horrified neighbours watched on helplessly.
Olivia Naserian, 24, appeared in court on Wednesday in Kenya after being charged with the killing of Glory Njeri before cutting open her body and eating parts of her organs.
Neighbours saw the attack take place through a window and witnessed Naserian attack the young girl. She reportedly stabbed her several times while singing hymns and reciting the alphabet.
Locals then alerted authorities, before police arrested the mum on suspicion of murder.
The 24-year-old appeared in a court in Kajiado where she was ordered by the chief magistrate to remain in police custody for another 10 days while the investigation into Njeri's death continues.
She is due to appear for another hearing on May 8.
According to local reports, Naserian attacked her daughter at their home on a residential estate in the town of Kitengela, around 20 miles south of Kenya's capital of Nairobi, on April 23.
Locals rushed to the family's home after hearing Njeri's screams and had initially suspected that the mother and daughter had been attacked by criminals.
But Kenyan newspaper The Star reports that they found the mother naked and attacking her daughter while singing nursery rhymes.
They watched on in horror as the woman stabbed her daughter to death before dismembering her body.
Unable to break the door down, they then saw her eat parts of the girl's internal organs.
By the time they got into the home, the daughter was dead and Naserian has collapsed.
Locals told The Star that no one else was home at the time.
One neighbour told another Kenyan paper The Standard that they heard the mother chanting: "You will never cry again my baby...you will forever sleep. I love you, my daughter."
They continued: "The woman ate her baby's liver as we watched. She also removed other internal organs search as intestines and heart from the body before becoming unconscious."
The two-year-old's body was taken for a post mortem.
Kitengela Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss Benson Mutia said: "We believe the court will give us more time to investigate this matter."
She added that investigators are trying to establish whether the woman was suffering from mental health problems.
"What she did to her own baby is unexplainable," Mutia said.
Naserian's aunt told Nairobi Wire that her niece had displayed some bizarre behaviour before the horrific incident, after recently returning from Kirinyaga where she had been living with her boyfriend for around eight months.
Gladys Wanjiku said that although her daughter had initially seemed happy, by the Sunday after her return she had started shouting and speaking in tongues.
She also broke utensils, windows and the TV before the killing.
"Something is very wrong. We were not here, but the reports we are getting from our neighbours is that Naserian started talking in tongues and chasing after the only dog at home hours before descending on her child," the aunt told Nairobi Wire.
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