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A 30-year-old Kenyan woman who was arrested in Stockholm, Sweden following the death of her two boys has confessed to charges of murder. Grace Nyambura Kamau confessed that she killed her eight-year old son Melvin Patrick Kamau and four-year-old Elias Welman, who were found after a search by police.
Nyambura was charged at Attunda District Court in Sweden. The Kenya Stockholm Blog, which reported the court proceedings, said Nyambura’s lawyer Eva Möller confirmed that Nyambura had admitted to killing her two children. It stated: “She acknowledged that she took the lives of her two sons. Afterward, the father to her younger son and the family’s closest friend, Sophia Njoroge, chose to leave the courtroom, shocked at the confession. The father said he was relieved to get answers to the questions that bothered him.”
Nyambura entered the courtroom covered by a yellow blanket. The blanket was also used to protect her from the public when the court decision was read out. On Monday, the two boys were found dead in the water at Munkholmen in Sigtuna. In the afternoon, their mother was arrested on suspicion of murder. In Kenya, the family has organised a mini-harambee to raise funds to travel to Sweden for the burial preparations. The harambee will be held on Sunday at Chuks Inn on Thika Road.
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poor babies can you imagine the terror they felt in that water during their last minutes? this woman was a monster
Some feel that the choice she made was correct, and can definitely understand why she made it. Seriously? Can You “understand” why the mother MURDERED her children? I don’t care how “confused, trapped, and misguided” someone is, it is absolutely inexcusable to decide that death is the only escape. If that’s the conclusion she came to for herself, she should have done it on herself and left the children with someone responsible.
Sorry, defending that woman who Murdered her children doesn’t make her any less of a monster. Thousands [even millions] of women deal with similar situations every day. If she was unfit, she could have given the children up for adoption, anything but murder them. Unfortunately, she must have had mental issues or something, but she is still a Monster for the Murder of her own. Wonder why the biological father of the four year old didn’t hang around.
The true victims are the precious little children that did not ask or deserve to be introduced into that world.
Women should be able to choose if they want to have children, and if they do choose to have them, should be given the support they need to raise them. If this woman did not feel she had a choice and was forced to have these children, then she may have well felt ‘trapped’, but as far as I know abortions are available in Sweden and had she chosen not to have the Swedish born child, then she obviously was so unprepared to raise. Shame on her.
KSB has been quoted as the source of info. At last “The Star” is respecting writing ethics in journalism.
i feel bad for those kids. they didn’t know there mom needed help and all of the other people she knew ignored her cry for help.
“I produced the children, I gave birth to the children, and those children are mine, I have a right to control their destiny,” the special agent said about a mothers mind set when they kill their kids. It is as if they are entitled to kill their kids because they came from them.” But….isn’t that the exact same mentality women have when they have an abortion? They say, “it’s my body, I can do what I want”, but, that’s NOT their body. That is a separate human from day one. Once again, different standards for what a woman can do to her child before and after birth.
I’m am glad I don’t have the slightest idea how a person could do such a evil thing. Most of us believe our children are the meaning of life. Awful story.
What a sick and evil person. They will claim depression and mental instability (you think) and beg for leniency but at the end of the day, to do this to your children… there is a warm spot in hell waiting for this witch!!!
Just another nut in the World.
As someone who adores children and could only have one, how hideously tragic this is.
I only wish, the powers of gods would have given me her children. I would worship at their feet; my own mother said, I was the, “exemplary” mother. As Jackie Kennedy once said, parenting is the most definitive achievement and success story of being a human being, to paraphrase. I totally concur.
How horrifically and utterly sad for those who adore being a parent and love parenting and children.
she does deserve life in prison or the death sentence (if this was another country). just because someone is depressed gives them no right to kill children. she was insane.
there was no excuse for this woman to kill those precious babies! they didn’t ask to come here and she knew before she had them that she couldn’t take care of them so why didn’t she use birth control? now her she will have a lifetime to think about what she did…..why didn’t she just kill herself if she was so damn distraught about her life??!!!
God did not give us the blessing of children to kill them. No matter if we all do die in the end or not, no one has the right to take a life BUT God. And if you feel other wise about killing your own children you are just as sick and disturbed as this mother was and is for killing her children!
My belated humble comment on the very sad story of the two kids who were killed on the month of September 2011
I cannot just help sending tears when I imagine the two children died and that there is nothing we can do about it. However, there is something we can do as a society or community of the Kenyans living abroad to prevent this from happening in future. Please, let us take the responsibility and understand that we live in a different cultural setting and different system form the one we know. Each and every one of us has got their own problems especially in regard to trying to cope with the differences and accommodating the new environment. Understanding the cultural aspects of the new environment (country, community, people etc) should be our first priority, because this culture defines who were and affects our behavior and attitudes so that when we encounter differences then we can understand why. This may help to solve any misunderstanding or misinterpretation/misconceptions that may occur. That way we can have a better living abroad or in a foreign land.
Every time when I read about or hear about this story and the thought of the whole scenario leaves me saying I wish, I wish and why I say this is because if our sister would have confined to someone to talk about her problem I believe this would have been a different story. Again I want to believe from what I have heard her friends may have let her down or betrayed her in some way or the other but at least she would have sought some professional help or talk to an independent person.
For example we are living in a society that gives very high value to the children and who also cares about women welfare. Understanding the system and the value they give to the children the lady would have even taken the children to the nearest ‘kommun’ and inform them or explain her situation if the problem was connected with the children, these kids would have been in very safe hands and I believe after resolving the problems she would have got her children back or she could still be seeing them and the motherly love would have helped her to see things in a different perspective. Surely we need to reexamine ourselves here and learn a lesson from what has happened. It is going to be painful to bear this for us and I know it is going to be even worse to the family too.
Thank you and God bless us all!
Maggie
Karlstad- Sweden
Thanks Maggie for your sober analysis of our situation as a community in this far away land.