JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
The appellant, Jennifer Akinyi Omondi, was convicted on her own plea of guilty to the charge of manslaughter contrary to section 202 as read with section 205 of the Penal Code and sentenced to a term of 10 years imprisonment by the High Court (Kimaru, J) on 17th May, 2007.
The facts that gave rise to the plea of guilty were as follows:
At the material time the appellant was aged 25 years, and a mother of five children, two of whom aged four and three, being her own, while the other three were her step-children. On 4th November, 2006 her husband left for work as usual, in the early morning, leaving all five children in her care. At some point that morning, the appellant assigned some household duties to the deceased, her step-daughter aged six, together with her other step-daughter. The deceased stumbled upon some furniture, apparently causing the appellant to be annoyed. The appellant grabbed the deceased, locked her up in a room, and began beating up the child. The…