A Marriage of Blood and Beatings ; Six Month Pregnant Woman is Hospitalised after Husband Beats Her and Slashes Her With a Machete

A six-month pregnant woman is recuperating at Makueni Mother and Child hospital. She survived a gruesome attack by her estranged husband who beat her and slashed her using a machete.

The victim, 20-year-old Irene Ndinda sustained serious injuries on her head, face, legs, hands and mouth. She now has several stitches on her head and bandages on both her hands.

The attack occurred on Friday and Ms Ndinda luckily escaped death by a whisker. According to sources, good samaritans informed police about a woman lying helpless on the road.

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Investigations indicated that the woman’s attacker dumped her in a forest in Mbiuni, Makueni. This was after he thought he had killed her. Police rushed the victim of domestic violence to Makindu Hospital, Makueni before she was moved to Makueni Referral Hospital and later transferred to Mother and Child Hospital.

Ndinda is said to have met her lover in 2018 while she was studying and moved in together the same year. Throughout their relationship, Ndinda apparently kept going back home after being assaulted by her man.

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After several incidents of abuse, Ndinda, together with her two-year-old child, eventually moved in permanently to her mother’s home. On the day of the attack, Ndinda had gone to pick her remaining clothes from her husband’s home when the man attacked her on her way back to her mother’s home.

He was clearly not happy with her leaving the abusive marriage. He was arrested a day after the incident. His motorcycle that had blood is in custody serving as evidence