A 70-year-old man was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of defiling an 11-year old girl.

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The man was found guilty by a court in Vihiga County.

The sentence was handed to one Moses Musasa Edavile by Magistrate Dennis Ogal of the Hamisi law Court.

The court heard that Mzee Moses, a resident of Minyika Village in Sabatia Constituency, Vihiga County defiled the 11-year-old girl between March and June 2016.

Edavile, the father of eight has two weeks to appeal the ruling or else he will serve the remainder of his life at the Kodiaga Maximum Prison in Kisumu County.

Elsewhere, four Homa Bay High School students were on Thursday arraigned before Principal Magistrate Thomas Obutu and charged with attempted arson.

The four allegedly tried to burn a dormitory in their school earlier this week.

The four students are among more than 30 learners who were arrested and questioned by the police after an attempted arson at the institution on Wednesday this week.

Citizen Digital reported that they pleaded not guilty and were released on a bond of Sh50, 000 each with a surety of a similar amount.

The case will be mentioned on the July 31 this year.