told the newspaper вЂњthis was to вЂcompensateвЂ™ KK, who was to raise the one-year-old to be his wife in future if the teenage mother taken away by the authorities did not return.вЂќ вЂњJS, in a bizarre act of trying to вЂpreserveвЂ™ the broken marriage he arranged, took back the one-year-old to his friend KK,вЂќ the Daily Nation revealed. The intervention of local authorities angered J.S., prompting the octogenarian to give away his infant granddaughter to the 50-year-old as a form of restitution. вЂњAs the teenager returned to school, the baby was placed in the custody of her grandmother, who is also JSвЂ™s younger wife, in Nkorkidinga village, Isinya,вЂќ according to the publication. вЂњIt was the collaboration by officers from the childrenвЂ™s and education departments that facilitated the girlвЂ™s rescue from her вЂmatrimonialвЂ™ home, alongside her one-year-old daughter,вЂќ the newspaper recalled. Local government officials thwarted the minorвЂ™s betrothal in August, however, after learning of the arranged marriage. вЂњTo cover what the family considered to be вЂshame,вЂ™ she was made to drop out of school and be the fourth wife to KK, her fatherвЂ™s friend, from Ewaso Kedong in Kajiado West sub-county, who is thought to be in his 50s,вЂќ the Daily Nation reported. J.S.вЂ™s teenage daughter became pregnant by her secondary school-age boyfriend last year. The grandfather of the betrothed baby, identified by the Daily Nation as вЂњan 80-year-old manвЂќ known as вЂњJ.S.,вЂќ gave the one-year-old to a male friend as compensation after a previous attempt to marry his teenage daughter to the same man, believed to be in his 50s, fell through.

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