New research has revealed that nearly half of Kenyan mothers with disabled babies are pressured to kill them. The report by Disability Rights International carried out over two years also found that mothers themselves are often blamed for having disabled children. The majority of the women interviewed said disabled children were considered a curse. Infanticide under Kenyan law is defined as the systematic and deliberate killing of children below one year old either at birth or afterwards. According to the Kenyan police service, there were 42 cases of infanticide in 2016. In this segment, Radio France International's Daniel Finnan spoke to Priscila Rodríguez, Associate Director at Disability Rights International, about this situation.
