This Kitengela story of a lady that separated with her partner and decided to take her child’s life in cold blood has driven me through a roller coaster of emotions. To say that this lady is sick would be an obvious understatement. For someone to lock herself in her house with her 2-year-old daughter and proceed to stab the daughter to death, dismember and eat her body parts – while traumatised neighbors watch from the window after struggling to get inside to no avail, is indeed a horror story that should never have happened.
I weep for the child. I weep for the neighbours that begged the woman not to kill her child and had to watch her do it, who now have to live with this image for the rest of their lives. I pity the mother for when she gets back to her senses and would have to live with it until her death. Which brings me to the question, does such a human being have a conscious? What exactly was going through her mind as she did the deed?
When you are informed to vet your partners thoroughly before getting into a relationship with them, please don’t take it lightly. Do not ignore the red flags, hard as it may be.
I realise that love is a very compelling force and we can’t help who we love but sometimes you have to pause and ask yourself how much in love you are and if this love is worth turning a blind eye to all the negatives.
When a person demonstrates antisocial tendencies – including a lack of empathy, a disregard for laws and no respect whatsoever to the rights of others and a lack of remorse, these could be a pointer to deep underlying issues for either psychopathy or sociopathy. To sum it up, a mental health disorder characterised by disregard for other people.
We have all been in contact with such people. The kind of people who don’t care for anything. The worst part about these disorders is that they have no cure. Imagine being stuck for life with such characters. All because you thought you were in love with them. I read somewhere a while back that choose carefully the person you marry or get married to, because the person you fall in love with is never the same person when you are going through a breakup. That is when the true colours rear their head. Twitter users has a few things to say about the unfortunate incident.
I was unable to complete watching that video, the cries of anguish from the child before she goes quiet as the mother gleefully sings “I love you so much that is why I have made you quiet.” Or the male neighbour that broke down into tears while begging the lady to “please stop!” Those cries are going to stay with me for a while.
Thoughts of my 6 years daughter kept flashing before me; of a time when she was two. How bubbly she was, how gentle and how completely dependent on me. I could not for the life of me imagine stabbing her to death and then ripping her insides off and eating them as outsiders watch. How? How could I even think of it? The betrayal! The absolute betrayal! How could I live with myself otherwise? Unless ofcourse, I was born with a horrible mental disorder (psychopathy/ sociopathy) and would never feel the guilt or remorse, no matter how hard I tried.
I am torn between praying for the redemption of this lady, asking for her to burn in hell but above all, praying that justice gets it’s course. As much as It is not in my place to judge, as a human being I cannot help but wonder if there is anything at all that could justify that inhumane incident.
