Reports indicate that a house help, following a fight with her boss, leaped from the fourth story of the building where she worked. The police in Nairobi and Kiambu are now investigating the event.
According to reports, her employer harassed the victim, a 22-year-old woman named Shanny Menza Atieno, while she was working at the residence in Kiambu County.
Reportedly, the employer stabbed the house help numerous times on the tragic day, and then she tried to flee, which ultimately led to her jumping from the fourth story of the Jumuira flats in Kiambu.
The leap caused Atieno to endure several fracture injuries, which, according to her family and physicians, resulted in her breaking a number of bodily components, including her leg and spinal cord, among other portions of her body.
In an interview with Citizen TV, a close family member made the following statement under the condition of anonymity: “Our daughter fractured her spinal cord and legs and has various bruises on the body.”
The victim also sustained knife wounds, claiming that her boss had repeatedly stabbed her. Moreover, she said that this had been going on for some time.
“The constant beatings I endure as soon as I enter that home destroy my peace of mind.” Atieno told the press that his employer has beaten him with kitchen tools before.
She went on to say, “I am in pain; no one could save me since they used to lock me in the home even after they had caused me injury in prior occasions when I had several knife wounds.”
Additionally, the victim reported that her previous employer had struck her with a kitchen stick. The victim has only been working at the residence for a period of two months.
This occurrence resulted in her acquiring head injuries, necessitating her admission to Kenyatta National Hospital for relatively mild procedures.
After she fell, neighbors found the house help unconscious on the basement floor, and they quickly transported her to Kenyatta National Hospital.
In a surprising turn of events for the authorities, the police officers who were working on the case said that they were also investigating the alleged employer for other offenses that they were aware of.
In recent times, there has been an increase in the number of instances of brutality and femicide. The authorities report that over one hundred Kenyans have lost their lives due to documented occurrences in the last four months alone.
