Two sisters aged 16 and 14 years were on Monday freed by a Narok Court after they were arraigned for undergoing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
The class seven and six pupils at Melelo Primary School in Narok West Sub County were arrested by the police after they circumcised themselves while at their grandmother’s house.
Media reports indicate that the two sisters confessed that on December 24, 2019, they circumcised each other at their grandmother’s house whom they are living with.
The matter was reported at the police station by members of the community after the girls went missing for several days and it was suspected that had undergone the illegal practice.
A medical report from the Narok County Referral Hospital presented in Court proved that the two sisters had undergone FGM since they had fresh cut wounds.
Narok Chief Magistrate George Wakahiu however in his ruling ordered that the sisters be freed because they are minors. Magistrate Wakahiu further said that the prosecution in the case had failed to produce appropriate charges against the two girls.
Magistrate Wakahiu in his ruling directed the county’s Children office to offer an intensive counseling on the minors after the trauma they had undergone.
“The prosecution had failed to produce appropriate charges against them. I directed the Children office to do intensive counselling on the sisters,” said the magistrate.