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City Man, 55, Assaults Mother, 88, While Demanding To Know His Father A man who attacked and threatened to kill his mother after she failed to tell him about his father has been charged with assault. John Kinuthia, 55, allegedly beat up and injured his 88-year-old mother, Naomi Kamuyu, at her home in Riruta, Nairobi on January 21. The accused reportedly punched his mother on the ribs and threw away her crutches before she was rescued by members of the public. He is said to have demanded to be told of his father’s identity and whereabouts but she told him she didn’t know his father.
Kinuthia is also charged with causing malicious damage and creating a disturbance. In the malicious damage count, Kinuthia is accused of wilfully and unlawfully cutting his mother’s handbag worth Sh200 into pieces and destroying her Sh15,000 Samsung phone in it. Kinuthia, who is his mother’s last born son, is also accused of creating disturbance after he threatened to kill his mother for not showing him his father, while armed with a knife before he was disarmed. He had accosted his mother demanding to be given his share of her rentals to be collecting rent which she refused. The suspect is said to have demanded to be told of his father’s whereabouts to get his identity but she reportedly told him she didn’t know his father.