Police have arrested a middle aged man for allegedly defiling his daughter who is three months old. This came as residents from Nyamira County have decried the rising number of defilement cases and other related vices against human life in the region and called on the government to intervene.
Reports indicate that the suspect did the unthinkable after deferring with his wife over internal family matters.
According to the Chief to Tombe location Chief Abel Oroti, 42-year old Edward Momanyi abused the minor in the absence of his wife on Thursday night.
The Chief said that he received information from villages that they alleged fought with his wife at night after he had come home from a drinking spree.
Sensing more danger of battering, the wife who was identified as Divinah Kwamboka took refuge in their neighbour’s house and left the angered husband with their baby child.
When she returned to their home in the following morning, she found the husband missing but the child was lying in bed.
On checking about the wellbeing of the child, she noted that the baby was not okay.
“That was when I sought the advice of the villagers who came and ascertained that my child had been defiled,” she said.
The Chief narrated how the suspect had been counselled in his office several times in the past but has failed to reform.
The Chief claimed that at one time, the suspect missed death narrowly from the irate villagers who wanted to lynch him over a beastly act on a cow.
“At that time I rescued him as I told the villagers not to take the law into their hands. The man seized the opportunity to dodge his assailants and went to an hideout in Kericho tea plantations for three years,” said the Chief.
The Chief confirmed that the suspect had been arrested and handed over to Nyamira Police to record statement that will help them to investigate the matter.
By Enock Okong,o
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