A woman convicted of killing her daughter has pleaded with the court to hand her a lesser sentence.
26-year-old Halima Sheilla Bwakali pleaded guilty to charges of poisoning her daughter on December 23, 2018, before also taking the poison in a futile suicide attempt.
Appearing before Kakamega High Court Judge Jesse Njagi on Thursday, the accused admitted also giving the diagonal poison to her son at their home in Khisa East Village in Khuisero.
However, both herself and her son survived after being rushed to Mwihila Sub-County Hospital, while the daughter succumbed to the toxic administration.
Through her lawyer Allan Otsyeno, the convict based her appeal on the fact that her surviving son will remain without parental care in her absence.
“The accused herein has been sentenced by the lower court on two counts to serve an eight-year jail term.
"Even as this court retires to write its judgment, we pray that it exercises discretion to allow the surviving child to have parental care,” the lawyer was quoted by the Standard.
The accused was sentenced on Friday by Chief Magistrate Bildad Ochieng and has been serving the sentence at the Kakamega Women Prison.
The judgement was pushed to March 14.