A Sunday school teacher was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Nakuru court for defiling one of his learners, aged 10.
George Muturi was found guilty of defiling the minor on July 10 2013 at Maili Tatu village in Njoro.
Resident magistrate Rita Amwayi, who delivered the ruling, said that seven witnesses who testified in court proved that the accused committed the offence beyond reasonable doubt.
“The court finds you guilty and you will serve life imprisonment for the heinous act,” said Amwayi during the ruling.
The court was told that Kariuki called the minor and took her to his house where he proceeded to defile her repeatedly and threatened to kill her if she disclosed the incident.
“The teacher is the one supposed to take care of the children but Kariuki’s act is in the contrary,” exclaimed Amwayi during the judgement.
The minor, who heeded Kariuki’s warning, reportedly never informed her mother of what her Sunday schoolteacher did to her. However, testifying in court, the minor narrated to court how the instructor advised her to take a cold shower at home and warned her of consequences if she revealed the incident.
The minor revealed that she told her friends in school about the act and the friends informed her mother. She was then taken to Njoro health centre by her mother where she was examined and medical practitioners proved that she had been defiled.
In the same court, two men in separate cases of defilement were sentenced to 30 years and 20 years imprisonment respectively for committing the act with 15-year-old girls, both secondary school students.