A 16-year-old girl has stabbed her foster father to death at Athi River town in Machakos County.
Athi River police boss Sharma Wario said the form two student in Athi River Secondary School presented herself to the police to report the matter after committing the crime on Sunday.
He spoke to this writer in his office on Monday.
Wario said the deceased, Shadrack Mwasia was living together with the girl and her mother in same house within the town before the incident happened.
“The deceased operated a small kiosk with his wife at Makadara shopping centre in Athi River town. The husband and his wife went to their clothes shop at 8.30 in the morning on the fateful day before he returned to the house and attempted to rape the girl,” said Wario.
He said the deceased quarreled with the girl who managed to free herself and ran to the kiosk where the mother was.
Wario said the deceased followed the girl to the kiosk and found her narrating the incident to the mother.
He said a quarrel ensued between the deceased and his wife before he took a stick and started whipping both the girl and the mother.
Wario said it was at that point that the girl picked a knife and stubbed the father on the right side of the heart.
He said the deceased was rushed to 24 Hospital in Athi River town by members of the public where he died while being attended to by doctors.
Wario said the body was taken to Machakos Level Five Hospital while the girl is in police custody helping in investigations.
He said the girl’s mother Elizabeth Nzilani had gone into hiding and was being pursued by the police.