Children of slain Rongo University student Sharon Otieno remain largely unaware of the tough times the rest of the family is going through, after losing her in the hands of cruel murderers.
Sharon who was seven months pregnant at the time of her death three weeks ago, left behind three other children who are now under the care of her parents Douglas Otieno and her mother Melida Auma.
And with no parent to protect them, the kids now depend on their grandparents for both protection and parental care, a responsibility the two have gladly accepted.
“It is like we have given birth again. We are glad that we have Sharon’s three children, a boy and two girls and we will raise them to the best of our ability,” said Otieno in an interview with the Daily Nation Sunday from his home in Magare, Homabay County.
Sharon's eldest daughter is one and a half years and the youngest still a toddler.
The second year Medical Records student was reportedly abducted in Rongo, Migori County before her lifeless body was recovered in a thicket near Oyugis, Homabay county three days later.
According to Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor who carried out a postmortem on her body, she suffered several stabs in the course of her murder, some penetrating to kill her unborn baby as well.
With the probe to nab the perpetrators ongoing, a number of suspects have since been arrested and presented in court, among them Migori Governor Okoth Obado who was her lover during her few last months.