The mother is said to have refused to breastfeed and even clothe the child claiming she was cursed due to her deformities.

If the decision went the other way, the baby was exposed – deliberately abandoned outside. This usually happened to deformed babies, or when the father did not think that the family could ...

A baby boy, born with a deformed face and a cleft palate at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital, who died last week after being abandoned by his parents is yet to be buried.