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Described by family and neighbours as intelligent and full of life, 16-year-old Beauty Njoki would today be in school attending classes and playing with her friends as usual. However, the life of the Form Two student at St John secondary school in Bahati, Nakuru County, was on June 4, snuffed out, at a tender age, by unknown assailant(s) on her way to school. Her killers waylaid the teenager as she headed to school at around 5:30am, defiled her, and killed her in cold blood, before dumping the body in a thicket.

Who killed her? Why? are some of the questions the teenager's family is grappling with. Did she have to die at such a tender age? Her family in Kabatini village in Bahati constituency, Nakuru County is now seeking justice following the gruesome murder, that has attracted fury from residents and local leaders. Njoki's mother Ms Naom Wanjiku said on June 4, her daughter left for school at around 5:30 am, but never returned home that evening, only for her body to be discovered dumped in a thicket, a few meters from their home, a day after she went missing.



"She normally arrives home from school at around 6:30 in the evening, but that Tuesday, she failed to show up. I became worried but thought that she had passed by her aunt's place and maybe decided to spend the night after getting late." "The following day I called one of her uncles and requested him to visit the aunt's place to confirm if she indeed slept there, however, she was not there.

"I also got information that.

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