Olivia Naserian, a Kenyan mother, is accused of stabbing her two-year-old daughter to death before eating her liver in a gruesome case that has shocked Kenya.
The 24-year-old was charged in court with murdering Glory Njeri before cutting open her body and eating parts of her organs.
According to local reports, neighbors who witnessed the horrific attack through a window say they saw the crazed mother stab her daughter several times while singing hymns and reciting the alphabet.
The residents of the estate quickly alerted the authorities, and police arrived to arrest the woman on suspicion of murder.
Olivia Naserian appeared in a Kajiado court on Wednesday, where the Chief Magistrate ordered her to remain in police custody for another 10 days while police investigate the girl’s death.
The woman is scheduled to appear in court again on May 8.
According to local reports, Olivia Naserian attacked her daughter on April 23 at their home on a residential estate in Kitengela, about 20 miles south of Kenya’s capital of Nairobi.
Witnesses describe how the woman stabbed her own daughter to death with a knife before dismembering her body.
According to witnesses, he then ate parts of the girl’s internal organs in Kitengela’s Milimani Estate.
Locals rushed to the family’s home when they heard the girl scream, according to Kenyan newspaper The Star, initially believing criminals had attacked.
When they arrived, the mother was naked and violently attacking her daughter while singing nursery rhymes, according to the reports.
Neighbors attempted in vain to break down the door in time to save the girl, with one filming the heinous attack.
When they finally broke into the house, the toddler was already dead, and the mother had collapsed on the floor, according to The Star.
The locals told the publication that the parents of the young mother – who also live in the house – were not at home at the time of the attack.
Speaking to The Standard – a Kenyan daily newspaper – one neighbour said they heard the mother chanting: ‘You will never cry again my baby…you will forever sleep. I love you, my daughter.’
They said they could remember the baby’s chilling scream as she was attacked.
‘The woman ate her baby’s liver as we watched. She also removed other internal organs search as intestines and heart from the body before becoming unconscious,’ the traumatised neighbour told the publication.