A 22-year-old man in Kisumu was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years in prison for sodomising his co-tenant’s seven-year -old child.
Stephen Muzatsi, who resides in Kibos, will begin his sentence immediately after Winam Resident Magistrate Philip Oilo found him guilty of the offence allegedly committed in May 20, last year.
Magistrate Oilo said that the victim clearly demonstrated the events as they happened as he was narrating his ordeal.
“Though he is only seven years old, he is clever as he clearly demonstrated the events. He even exhibited bitterness and anger towards the accused when he was narrating how the accused called him his wife," said Magistrate Oilo adding that from the victim's evidence, he is traumatised, a condition he said is going to have a psychological effect on him considering also the stigma attached to homosexuality.
Circumstances of the matter were that on the said date, the complainant’s mother left home to go fetch for water when the accused took advantage of her absence and called the boy in his room where he ordered him to lie on the bed on his stomach.
According to the victim, the accused person then had anal sexual intercourse with him several times. The matter came to light after the complainant’s mother observed some behaviour change from the complainant.
After questioning him about it, the complainant then revealed what was done to him by the accused person and a police report was made.