A security guard was on Tuesday remanded by a Nakuru Law Court after facing charges of attempted rape of a minor.
Appearing before Chief Resident Magistrate Felix Kombo, the accused Lukas Masibo 30, denied that around 7pm on January 24 this year within Milimani Estate in Nakuru town he indecently touched a minor’s private parts while kissing her lips out of her consent nor conscious after the minor strayed into the security cabin within the compound of his employer.
According to the prosecution desk, the accused was arrested on that particular day after a female house help who had witnessed the incident and receiving a verbal narration from the eight year old girl informed the parents and other family members later that night after they arrived home from a function in town.
The court heard that the accused, who was under the influence of alcohol when he committed the offence, was arrested by police officers from Milimani police post and later transferred to Nakuru Central Police Station after the minor’s parents notified police on phone about the incident.
Masibo denied the charges and was remanded in custody awaiting the hearing of the case on February 24 after failing to raise a cash bail of Sh50,000 or a bond of Sh100,000.
Meanwhile a 20 year-old man was also arraigned in the same Court for charges of stealing rabbits from his neigbours’ homestead.
The Court under the precision of Chief Resident Magistrate Felix Kombo, heard that on January 25 this year at around 12 noon the accused, Alex Kipng’eno unlawfully entered into Joseph Njoroge’s compound in Ngata area within Nakuru sub-county and ventured into the backyard of the homestead before breaking into a rabbit cage and stole four rabbits.
The prosecution desk told the magistrate that the teenager who is a friend to the complainant’s children and a regular visitor to the home committed the offence while the family members were away in Church.
The accused was arrested and helped police in investigations before the rabbits were retrieved from his grandmother’s homestead a few kilometres away from Njoroge’s homestead.
He denied the charges arguing that he had been promised by the complainant’s son who is his friend to come and take the rabbits for him to start his own rabbit farm.
He was released on a bond of Sh30,000 pending the hearing of the case on February 24.