The arresting officer is alleged to have missed slapping the woman and hit the child instead. By law, police officers are not allowed to intervene in civil matters like debt collection.

The woman, a retail shopkeeper at Kambu market along Nairobi- Mombasa road, said she watched helplessly as her child died hours later after writhing in pain for a long time.

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