A man could face life imprisonment after he pleaded guilty of sodomizing his five-year-old nephew in Dago Kolweny village on the outskirts of Kisumu town.
Teddy Okoth Juma's fate now lies with the court which has since ordered a mental check-up after he admitted that he lured his cousin's son with chips and sodomised him on April 8, 2016. Defiling a minor has a maximum jail term of Life imprisonment.
The 26-year old who is currently being remanded at Kodiaga Maximum Prison first appeared in court on July 19 and pleaded guilty of the sexual offense which attracts a life imprisonment penalty.
Senior Resident Magistrate Thomas Obutu ordered that he be taken for a psychiatric test to evaluate his mental well being after he pleaded guilty to the charge.
Juma was arrested and arraigned in court after an out of court settlement deal between his family and the father to the minor, was exposed in a quarrel between the minor's mother and his stepmother.
In the deal, sealed in a handwritten agreement between the two parties, a paltry Sh8000 was paid to some of the boy's relatives to help kill the case.
The sum, according to the minor's grandmother (name withheld) who made the heinous ordeal public, was to secure the disappearance of hospital reports of the defilement so that a criminal charge could not be pursued.
She said the boy's mother who had separated with her husband, returned home and started insulting her co-wife wife, accusing her of being bought at Sh8000 to conceal her son's sodomy.
"(Sic) The family has agreed to solve the matter at home since the matter is at the hand of the family and when the case is not solved can be brought for further action that's all I can state," the letter read in part.
The suspect was later arrested after the boy's grandmother blew the whistle over the attempts to cover up the case.
Owino who did not discredit the letter has not been arrested by police over the defilement of his son.
The case will be mentioned again on September 2 when Juma will be expected to take the plea again.