A Tana River County headteacher has been jailed for 15 years for defiling a 16-year-old pupil for a good grade in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE).
Presiding over the case, Hola Resident Magistrate Benson Kabanga ruled that the prosecution had proved the case beyond any reasonable doubt.
The eight witnesses who were called by the prosecution led by Prosecution Counsel Michuki Alfred further solidified the case against the accused person.
In his verdict, Kabanga stated that the headteacher abdicated his responsibility to protect the student from any form of harm or abuse.
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According to the Sexual Offences Act, a person who defiles a child between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than fifteen years.
Kibera Law Courts, on the same day, sentenced a man to serve 60 years imprisonment for defiling a 2-year-old child.
In this particular case, the accused was charged with two counts – defilement and Committing an Indecent Act with a Child.
The convict was accused of luring his victim from where she was playing with her friends under the pretext of going to buy candy for her.
“The prosecution through Miss Jane Gitahi called seven (7) witnesses, and when the accused was placed on his defence, he was unable to dislodge the prosecution case,” the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) stated.
In a similar case, a High Court in Embu sentenced a former DCIO to serve 20 years imprisonment on two counts of rape and a further 10 years imprisonment on a count of abuse of position of authority.
According to the ODPP, the former detective was accused of raping a victim while under custody at his police station. ODPP filed an appeal at the High Court after a lower court released the former police officer.
“The Appellate Court, in setting aside the judgment of the Trial Court, agreed that the prosecution had proven all counts overwhelmingly and that the Trial Court had erred in descending into the arena of litigation and in considering extraneous factors while acquitting the Respondent,” ODPP detailed.
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