Kibungo Police is holding Clementine Nyiransengimana who is also contemplating suicide after throwing her three day old baby girl in a pit latrine.
The embattled mother admits that she threw her baby due to stress from her boyfriend Jean Claude Habimana who harassed her for alleged promiscuity.
“He rejected the baby because she didn’t look like him, so I got worried of how to raise her alone,” she said.
The baby who was recovered dead at a latrine in Mutanderi center is the second child Nyiransengimana has allegedly had with the same boyfriend who currently in another relationship.
“He agreed to have fathered our first child but I wonder why he bothered me on this new one. He always insults me calling me all sorts of bad names. That’s why I couldn’t take it,” she disclosed.
After throwing the kid in the pit latrine, Nyiransengimana rushed to the hospital for malaria treatment.
However, the doctor who attended to her got curious of the absence of her newly born child indicated on her medical report and decided to call the police after she failed to give the physician convincing reasons on the kid’s whereabouts.
It is then the police mounted a search within Kibungo town and found the kid dead in a pit latrine.
Currently she is being detained and might get a life sentence if found guilty.
However, Nyiransengimana is not willing to wait until the judgment day and prefers to die due to shame.
“I admit I threw my kid away and I caution others never to try this unGodly act. That’s why I deserve to die,” she said.
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