A 27 year-old Ugandan national was arraigned in a Thika court and charged with defiling an 8 year-old school girl in Ndakai-ini trading centre, Muranga County. The accused, Dominic Wakabori Mechi, was found to have committed the act on December 7, 2014 and threatened to kill the girl if she revealed the issue to anyone. Appearing before the Chief Principal Magistrate Stephen Mbungi, the accused, who is a farm hand in the area, is said to have lured the girl with a queen cake and after the girl ate the cake she agreed to get into his house where he defiled her. The mother told the court that the farm hand was a common figure in the neighbourhood as he picks tea leaves in various tea plantations in the area and thus it was not surprising that the young girl agreed to eat his cake. “I noticed that something was wrong with my daughter as she was experiencing a lot of problems while walking and I took her to Kirwara Sub-District Hospital where the medics discovered that she had been defiled,” said the mother. Prosecuting Chief Inspector Nancy Muthuri asked the court to decline a plea the accused person had fronted to the court that his Sh 350,000 bond be reduced to Sh 200,000. “The accused person is a criminal who deserved to be locked up as he had committed the heinous act before and had been released from prisons for being in the country illegally and had served a 2 year jail term,” said Muthuri. The court refused to review the bail and ordered Wakabori to honor the Sh 350,000 bond as directed by the same court on December 19, 2014. The case will resume on May 5, 2015, where investigating officer and the examining doctor will testify.

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