Court gavel. [Photo/File]A Mombasa court on Monday sentenced a man to ten years behind bars after he was found guilty of defiling a 16-year-old girl.Kibao Nyawa was handed the sentence after the prosecution proved that he had indeed committed the heinous act.According to the court proceedings, the accused convinced the girl to follow him to his house after which he would take her to her aunt's home but he ended up spending two nights with the minor in his house and failed to take her to her aunt's place as he had earlier promised.
However, in his mitigation before senior resident magistrate Edgar Kagoni, Nyawa begged the court to forgive him saying he was the sole breadwinner to his young siblings following the death of his father."My father died five years ago and I was left with the responsibility of taking care of my family," he pleaded.