Nyando Magistrate Court has sentenced to life imprisonment a man found guilty of defiling a child aged one and a half years.
The judgement read by Resident Magistrate Paul Wechuli found Samuel Ochieng Odago guilty of commiting the offence in Tura Sub location early this year, while working in the area where he is not resident.
While reading the judgement, Wechuli said the punishment could supress the act which has become deeply rooted in the area with most cases being swept under the carpet without the knowledge of the authorities.
“The offence defies logic that a grown-up man does such an act to one and a half year old child,” said Wechuli.
He added that though the truma and pain caused on the child was unbearable,justice stood by her side and fought for her honour and integrity.
The act took place in a residential plot.
A witness who found the man in the act told the court that he struggled with the offender before freeing the child, where other residents were notified of what had transpired.
Upon learning what had happened,members of the public locked the suspect inside the house where he had commited the offence. He was saved by the police from lynching by the angry residents.
The victim's mother told the court that she was informed that there was a certain child who had been defiled,she later found out that it was her own. She then called her husband to inform him about what had happened.
She immediately rushed her to hospital for examination where the clinical officer confirmed that she had been defiled. She was put on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis drugs to prevent infection of sexually transmitted diseases.
The offender pleaded with the court for forgiveness because he was ailing due to the rushes that were allover his body.