{"id":219404,"date":"2026-01-06T10:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-marsabit-police-arrest-woman-and-quack-doctor-over-illegal-abortion\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:25:24","slug":"kenya-marsabit-police-arrest-woman-and-quack-doctor-over-illegal-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-marsabit-police-arrest-woman-and-quack-doctor-over-illegal-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Marsabit Police Arrest Woman and Quack Doctor Over Illegal Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Marsabit \u2014 Law enforcement officers in Marsabit have arrested a 23-year-old woman, Morme Wario, for procuring an illegal abortion, alongside a 50-year-old unlicensed practitioner, Haron Muthuri, who carried out the procedure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The arrests follow disturbing reports from Malkalakore village, Drib-Gombo, where residents discovered a lifeless male foetus, estimated to be six months old, wrapped in clothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Police quickly recovered the body and transferred it to Marsabit Referral Mortuary for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601050512.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marsabit \u2014 Law enforcement officers in Marsabit have arrested a 23-year-old woman, Morme Wario, for procuring an illegal abortion, alongside a 50-year-old unlicensed practitioner, Haron Muthuri, who carried out the procedure. The arrests follow disturbing reports from Malkalakore village, Drib-Gombo, where residents discovered a lifeless male foetus, estimated to be six months old, wrapped in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":219405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[18508,258,256,6414,19813,6918,4688,430,5909,257,662,37899,254,4307],"class_list":["post-219404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abortion","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-doctor","tag-illegal","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-marsabit","tag-news","tag-police","tag-quack","tag-south-africa-today","tag-woman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}