A Kenyan family living in the US is in pain after the father accidentally hit and killed their 18-month son while reversing his car.
Dan Mutuma crushed the little boy, Mishael Mutuma who had walked unnoticed behind his car while he was reversing.
Reports by the Daily Nation revealed that the child was the grandson of Pastor Moses Mutuma of Miathene SDA district in Meru County.
Mutuma’s brother-in-law Ezra Kamencu Mingaine who spoke to the media house narrated how the tragic incident left the young family distraught.
Dan Mutuma, who is a nurse in Kansas City, had left home early morning for a local university where he is studying but realised he had forgotten some document and went back to get it.
He hurriedly picked the document and quickly left the house without realising that his young son had sneaked out of the house and followed him.
“It is so painful to the entire family and especially to the father to have crushed his own son. There is no way he could have seen the kid who was playing behind. The child had run unnoticed behind the vehicle as the father was reversing," Mingaine remarked.
“The mother-in-law was in the kitchen while the wife was tending to the other twin children. It was so painful, nobody could be blamed for it,” he added.
Residents who witnessed the tragedy happen narrated how they heard the father wailing after the child was hit by the car.
Local police were investigating the matter but did not expect to prefer any criminal charges from the incident and were treating it as an accident.
Mingaine noted: “If the child were not his, it would have been a terrible case. I have started educating members of the public on the need to ensure they know where their children are while driving away.”
