Kericho law courts. [Photo/Ebru TV]
A Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) student who is accused of defiling a high school female patient at Kapkatet Sub-County hospital was on Monday arraigned before a Kericho court and charged with defilement.
Dennis Kiplangat Bor, a senior student at Kapkatet Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC), was charged that on January 27, 2018, at Kapkatet hospital within Bureti sub-county, he unlawfully and intentionally defiled the girl contrary to section 8 (1) as read with section 8 (4) of the Sexual Offence Act No 3 of 2006.
He denied the charge before Kericho Senior Resident Magistrate Stephen Ngetich and was released on a bond of Sh200, 000 and a surety of a similar amount.
The 16-year-old victim is a Form Two student at Cheborge Girls High school.
The victim’s mother, who is one of the witnesses had earlier (outside the court) recounted the events saying that she had rushed her daughter to the facility for emergency treatment after falling ill in school.
“I was called by the school deputy principal that my daughter was unwell. I picked her up and took her to Kapkatet hospital for treatment,” the distraught mother said.Having arrived at the hospital after 5 p.m, she said she waited outside as the girl was attended to by a male “doctor” who she later learned was a 25-year-old student nurse at KMTC. “But when my child emerged minutes later from one of the corridors, she was weeping. She then whispered to the mother that the doctor had raped her during the examination,” said the parent.
She had immediately confronted the “doctor” who denied committing the offense.
Kapkatet KMTC Administrative Officer David Rotich said he was informed about the incident on Sunday night and in the morning he followed up the student’s whereabouts and found him at a hideout at Litein town.
Rotich said they reported the incident to Litein police station and that the culprit had remained at the station as police commenced investigations.
Bor was undertaking his practicals at the facility when the incident was reported to have occurred.
Rotich said the accused was one of their brightest and upright students and had not previously had a history of indiscipline.