Cast away in bushes, a rag stuffed into her mouth and another tied round her neck, miracle baby Esther, safe in Mama Sue's arms, comes home to the Happy House certain of a family life founded on love.
Just a few days old, weighing 1.9kg, she was discovered abandoned in a carrier bag in undergrowth on the outskirts of a middle class estate in Malindi by a kindly passerby.
"She saw baby Esther with a gag in her mouth a dirty piece of cotton cloth, and another one round her tiny neck," says our social worker Uncle Billy.
"Who knows her beginnings, but it is possible our angel Esther could have been born to a schoolgirl or a house-help who would have experienced severe hostility from their immediate families or employers.
"We have come across cases where housegirls conceive with their employer's husbands, or sons, either through rape or through other forms of undue influence.
"The perpetrators later ensure that their poor victims are sacked or are forced to abscond after being unable to cope with the frustrations meted to them daily. Their fateful terminations are done obviously without any benefits at all. It is double tragedy when these wives or mothers discover these developments.
"Some of the poor victims end up losing their lives or sustaining grievous body injuries.
"Desperate situations call for desperate measures whereby victims turn to abortion which is not legal and an expensive venture.
" Those who push for it end up in quacks' dens where the most likely outcome is that they will end up bleeding to death because of the barbaric means used.
" Others will deliver and suffocate the babies to death while others contend to abandon them in places where they can be found and taken to safety.
We cannot know what circumstances led to Esther's abandonment. But we do know that now she is a Happy House angel she will receive all the love and care she deserves."
The hospital where she has been treated estimated her to be five days old when she was found making her birthdate January 23 - the same as Uncle Billy's!
And by coincidence her name is Esther - the same as Billy's beloved mum.
Mama Sue invited Dr Steve Cushing and his wife Cherith, from Blackpool, who have been so supportive to the Happy House and to her personally, to name our new baby.
Steve and Cherith, who were making their first visit to our family, chose Esther and are to join her sponsor family.
After 11 days in hospital, supported by the Happy House with the provision of milk, nappies, clothes and medication, Esther finally came home, weighing in at 2.3kg.
And, of course, there was a joyful seen when Mama Sue brought her home to all her eager brothers and sisters who were waiting to greet her. The older ones wanting to hold and cuddle her while the little ones marvelled at her tiny fingers and toes!
Welcome to the family little one, you are safe now - and so loved.
