{UAH} Estranged couple fight over child's body, mother claims dead son cries in morgue over dispute
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Estranged couple fight over child's body, mother claims dead son cries in morgue over dispute
There was drama at Moi Hospital mortuary in Voi sub-county when a grieving mother went berserk after finding her estranged husband attempting to sneak a coffin intended for their son's remains from the mortuary.
The Tuesday afternoon drama momentarily paralysed activities at the mortuary as Perine Ogot, the child's mother made a scene after she found her husband and his friends carrying an empty coffin pretending there was a body inside.
The discovery drove the mother wild as she screamed and threatened her husband and his friends who fled from the scene.
Speaking to KNA at the mortuary on Tuesay, Ogot accused her husband of attempting to take over the burial plans for their 8-years - old son yet he had failed to provide for the family for the past three years.
She claimed that he had secretly conspired to sneak the body out from the mortuary so that he can bury it quickly to avoid questions on where he had been when the child had been struggling with the chronic pneumonia that killed him.
"He cannot come here and attempt to sneak the body of our child out of the mortuary yet he has been gone for three years. He has been living large in Mombasa and neglected our son when he was alive. He should not be concerned now that he is dead," said the teary mother.
According to the mother, the husband had further planned to take the body for burial at a public cemetery. He had acquired a burial permit and had a grave dug at the Voi public cemetery but these plans were opposed by the mother on the grounds that the family had a home where their children should be buried.
"We can't just go and bury our son at a public cemetery amongst strangers as if he has no home. We have a home and land where he can rest in peace," the mother stated.
Her husband had reportedly attempted to get child's body, but was however informed by morgue attendants that the mother had ordered that the bod not be released.
In a bizarre move, the husband's friends went into the morgue and emerged carrying out a coffin that appeared to have a body.
Ogot and her two brothers blocked the coffin and demanded to see the body inside. In the process of pushing and shoving, the coffin collided against a car door and tumbled on the ground revealing an empty interior.
The women started wailing and screaming forcing the men to flee from the scene leaving two of their colleagues to collect the coffin before hightailing out of the mortuary compound.
The driver for the vehicle hired to carry the body drove off hastily insisting he would not carry the body for fear of a curse.
"They are mocking my dead son by attempting to fool us that they are concerned about him now that he is gone," said the distraught mother as other women attempted to comfort her.
She further alleged that the dead child had been crying as he lay in the morgue, lifeless for three days saying it was an indicator that he is unhappy with the tug-of-war between the parents.
"I have seen him and tears are still coming out of his eyes. He is very unhappy with how he is being treated ," she alleged.
She added that the body will remain in the mortuary until the husband agreed to have their son buried at their ancestral home in Werugha, Wundanyi sub-county.
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