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Outlook: Locked up for a crime I didn’t commit – with my child

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Teresa Njoroge

18/06/2024 GMT

Locked up for a crime I didn’t commit – with my child

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Prison gave wrongfully-convicted Kenyan banker Teresa Njoroge a new mission in life

Being with other mothers and their children in a Kenyan jail, gave wrongfully-convicted banker Teresa Njoroge a new mission in life.

Teresa Njoroge was a high-flying banker with clients worth millions. She was caught up in an elaborate fraud and even though she had done nothing wrong was imprisoned on conspiracy charges. In Kenya children up to the age of four can accompany their mothers to prison; Teresa had given birth just a few months before her conviction and decided not to be separated from her daughter. It was terrifying, but the challenge of nurturing her child in overcrowded and outdated conditions gave her a connection with the other mothers inside. Meeting them changed Teresa and, after her eventual exoneration, gave her a new purpose: supporting former women prisoners to deal with the stigma on the outside through her organisation Clean Start Africa.

Presenter : Mobeen Azhar
Producer : Julian Siddle

(Photo: Teresa Njoroge. Credit: Clean Start Africa)

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