Locked up for a crime I didn’t commit – with my child

Teresa Njoroge was a high-flying banker with clients worth millions. She was caught up in an elaborate fraud and even though she had done nothing wrong was imprisoned on conspiracy charges. In Kenya children up to the age of four can accompany their mothers to prison; Teresa had given birth just a few months before her conviction and decided not to be separated from her daughter. It was terrifying, but the challenge of nurturing her child in overcrowded and outdated conditions gave her a connection with the other mothers inside. Meeting them changed Teresa and, after her eventual exoneration, gave her a new purpose: supporting former women prisoners to deal with the stigma on the outside through her organisation Clean Start Africa.

Presenter : Mobeen Azhar
Producer : Julian Siddle

(Photo: Teresa Njoroge. Credit: Clean Start Africa)