child theft

A Kenyan hospital work­er caught by the BBC trying to sell a baby has been sentenced to 25 years in jail. Fred Leparan, who worked at Nairo­bi’s Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital, was filmed accepting $2,500 (£2,000) to sell a baby boy under the hospital’s care. He was arrested in 2020 and found guilty of child trafficking, child neglect and conspiracy to commit crime. His co-accused, Selina Adundo, was sentenced to six years in jail or a $2,000 fine. An Africa Eye reporter had initially approached Leparan posing as a poten­tial buyer, after hearing from a source that the senior clinical social worker…