Woman seeks sole custody of child amidst dispute with US-based father

A woman has moved to court seeking custody of a child she sired with a US-based Kenyan man.

The woman has been living with the U.S.-born child since February 2019 after falling out with the father in 2018 and relocating back to Kenya.  

She filed the report on the grounds that the child's father has filed a custody petition in the U.S. in the hopes of gaining custody of the child.

"The respondent has informed the applicant of his intention to take the minor back to the United States and there is a real likelihood of the minor being removed from the jurisdiction of this court thus rendering proceedings in this matter futile," the mother argued in her affidavit.

The child's mother subsequently asked the court to grant her actual custody, care and control of the minor, further accusing the father of not taking care of the child since they moved back to Kenya.