Aftonbladet Report: 22nd September 2011
The father and the 30-year-old mother’s friend were in court when she confessed killing her two sons. When she admitted that she had killed the children, her close friend Sophia Njoroge burst into tears. “I wonder then, what happened during those last hours? What happened when the children cried for help? I cannot believe this”, she told to Aftonbladet.
Both Sophia Njoroge and the four-year old’s father were present at today’s pre-trial hearing at Attunda District Court. The mother of two was charged with suspicion of murdering her two small sons, four and eight years old.
During the pre-trial hearing, she shocked all by acknowledging that she killed her children. Then hell broke loose.
“Cannot believe this”
Both the four-year-old’s father and Sophia Njoroge immediately left the courtroom. Outside, she could not hide her shock – she lay flat with head down on the floor and cried.
“I wonder then, what happened during those last hours? What happened when the children cried for help? I cannot believe this”, she said after a while when she had recovered.
The father was also shocked with the mother’s confession. “It’s not her, it’s someone else in her who did this”, he said.
Critical to social services
They are critical of social services’ actions, that denied the 30-year-old woman and her children any help.
Sophia Njoroge often took care of the two boys, especially when their mother travelled to Kenya at the beginning of the summer, for a month.
When the woman came home, she had lost her job because she had delayed in Kenya and had not been given a leave of absence. Sophia tried on one occasion to help her by contacting the social welfare office, but was rejected.
“They asked just who I was and why I called”, she said in a previous interview.
The electricity was disconnected
On Monday – just hours before the two boys were found dead – she was back in the apartment of the 30-year-old woman. She found that the electricity had been disconnected and the apartment was dirty and full of pizza boxes.
“Which Sweden are we in today where kids can go without electricity? I do not understand anything”, she said today.
The father is disappointed with the way the social services responded to the 30-year-old woman – and the school’s complaint of worry when her children did not attend classes.
“When one is treated the way she has been treated, then one becomes another person”, he said.
Translation by KSB staff
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A wud rathr die poor in kenya instead of takn ma kids 2 anthr cntry and bring them back dead coz no 1 wud b wlln 2 help them
Sofia stand Up!Raise Up !Sofia Stand UP Rise Up! Sofia its too much to bear !
May the Lord accept the two innocence souls in Heaven.
R,I.P
Sophia…………..at least you have showed that all kenyans are not bad! you have tried all your best!!! what else could you have done??? dont feel guilty because you did what you could!!
God will bless you or God will pay you back through your kids/or yourself trust me…..you are like a mother to her…
keep upp the good spirit)=
//Mkenya/mkikuyu mwezako
There is no sane mother who can kill her own children. This woman-if she really killed her children then she was dehumanised by her problem and had completely no idea what she did, if she did it. When she will come to her senses and realise what she did she will not want to live. poor boys, no one was nosey enough to foresee a tragedy upcoming.GOD REST THEIR SOULS IN PEACE,
MUM
You can die from someone else’s misery – emotional states are as infectious as disease. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are only precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.
I hope the father of the 4-year old feels guilty because he said in an interview he had been away for long without contacting the murder suspect.In a way he must have contributed to her pain. Poor woman and children.
When someone takes the sacred trust between child and parent and abuses it, be it by killing, molesting, or hurting a child in anyway, they deserve to get everything the law can throw at them. Please everyone give a child a hug today.
Hi, Those 2 little kids lost their lives. If their mother did not want them, why not put them up for adoption? Being a single mother is very hard, but the kids deserved to live. And poor women get help from the government, if there is no one to help them.
It is time that society began setting the expectation, better yet, mandating that parents protect their children with every bit of life they have. In nature, it is doubtful that this person would be allowed to stay in the pack. She would be ‘outlawed’ and left to starve. While I will admit that is a bit extreme for our society, I truly believe that cases like this need to end in the death penalty (if it was not in Sweden). The young defenseless children need to be protected by society, and where we fail, remove the offender from life itself.
Next, I can just hear MENTAL ILLNESS as a defense. That’s bull because it was a premeditated MURDER and she knew EXACTLY what she was doing!
She did all this bcoz she had no 1 2 help her includn her own mothr whm she calld 2 ask 4 help bt she cud nt help hr,the same way she threw me out of her house at midnyt 11 years ago with ma little kid the same way she did to hr own daughtr,as 4 me a had parents whm a cud go to bt whr cud hr daughtr and grandchildrn go 2?smtyms even our parents make us do thngs we wud nvr wsh 2do.a jst wsh 1 day she wll b free frm all ths
Grace is also an offer. Her mum är a very brutal woman who only God knows how she has done to her own dotter. Grace didt have a “normal childhood” she was brutally beaten and treated like an animal..by so called mother…Her mother never loved her,those who knows Grace knows everything about her uppbringing..her steapdad was even “worse” towards Grace,how do as a mother,with a new man who is not a dad to your child,can let him misstreat your child?? her mother together with her man(Grace stepdad) are the ones who created this monster by taking childhood away from Grace.
I dont blame Grace so much,…she hade no one to protect her or to give her love a child needs to fuction normal,if a child dont get love especially from the mother,its easy to understand,…all “förskning” shows that a child need love to be secure,and empathy comes automatically when a child is being loved and cared for,without that its impossible to be normal.
Her mother valued her new man more that her own dotter,she married him when she already had Grace and then she got 2 more kids with him,so Grace was always the bad one,her mother never stopped/protected the step dad from beating her,what kind of a mother is Grace mother? she wrote that her dotter was Quiet,loving and kind…Grace is exactly the other way round,her own mother didnt even know her..please lets learn from this,a child needs love/protection from the mother especially,..”mothers love is something no one can explain” its so important especially from 0 age to 6…..
her brother is also a drug addict..how,why cant her mother ask her self questions?? i know this family very well. Grace psycological problems comes from her own home. her mother is kind when you dont know her,…the same with Grace….those who know Grace well know how mean she is..those who dont know her well from parties,they can decribe her as sweet,kind and loving!I’
If those boys lived with Grace God forbid i dont know how what they would become. her own mother is the one to blame here…..
Grace ex friend
Grace Nyambura Kamau and a wife of Gunnar is a Bloody thirsty Monster regardless what her Best friends say /are saying/ have been saying In Kenya the judges would sentence her to Hang!She must consider her very Lucky indeed Hence Sverige doesnt have Capital Punishment , Her crimes cannot be Justified whatsover And in the USA she could end up being Injected with Poison untill she dies.This is first class degree murder.
#12 comment by Ruguru for Grace’s ex friend. Even if Grace Nyambura was beaten as a child, she had no right murdering her children. It was evil and in many countries outside Sweden, she could have been hanged, injected with lethal poison or stoned in public. You don’t channel your childhood anger into your own children. How many of us grew up with strict parents or relatives? Many, and we have ended up living like “normal” people wihout killing our chidlren.
Sweden has good psychiatrict care that she should have used to manage her anger.
This is to xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx. We all appreciate your help to Grace and her kids. I have been wondering, since you own a cleaning company, why didnt you give Grace a job in you company to help her earn a living to support her kids? Grace was jobless and you knew this. Have you thought of this xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx?