Police arrested a 79-year-old man who defiled three girls aged 8, 12 and 15 in South Maragoli, Vihiga Sub-County on Saturday.
The victims reported that they were defiled by a person well known to them and police officers visited the scene and established that the girls had gone to fetch firewood in the forest when the suspect defiled them.
“The suspect who lives alone next to Maragoli Hill Forest was arrested and placed in custody,” police said.
Police said the girls were taken to hospital and that the suspect will be charged in court once the investigations are complete.
In another case in Ihururu, Tetu Sub-County in Nyeri a 37-year-old man was also arrested on Saturday for defiling his stepdaughter, aged 12.
The Grade Six pupil reported that at around 4pm, they went to Nyeri to purchase a few items and after they finished, they boarded a matatu back home.
However, at around 7pm while walking to their home, the step-father defiled her.
“She gagged her not to scream and then threatened that he would poison them and escape to an unknown destination should the girl inform the mother,” police said.
Police records also indicate that in Garsekoftu village in Griftu, Wajir West Sub-County, another 13-year-old girl was also defiled by a man identified as Isa Abdulahi, a resident of Arabajan.
“The victim was attacked while herding their goats at Welathi grazing field. The suspect escaped from the scene and is being sought by the detectives,” police said.
In Majengo within Kericho town, a three-year-old girl was also defiled by a boy aged 14 who is their neighbor and a Grade Seven pupil in a local school. The boy was on Saturday arrested and placed in custody at the Child Protection Unit (CPU) as a child in need of care and protection.
“The victim was taken to Kericho County Referral Hospital where she was treated and discharged in a stable condition.
In Kiong’anyo in Kisii Central Sub-County, a 35-year old man was subjected to mob injustice after he was found in a grazing field with a naked girl aged 6 and a Grade One pupil on Thursday last week.
Members from a nearby construction site were alerted and arrested the suspect before subjecting him to mob injustice.
Police officers rushed to the scene and rescued the suspect who had suffered head and chest injuries.
Police in Bondo, Siaya County on Saturday morning also arrested a gang member who after gang raping a woman, accompanied her to her room to collect money he had demanded from the victim to spare her life.
The victim, a student at Bondo Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) said she had on Friday been invited to a birthday party aat a club in Bondo town and left on Saturday at around 5am.
Accompanied by her male colleagues, they decided to walk to their residence but along the way, they were attacked by two men armed with pangas. The male friends escaped leaving her behind where she was gang raped before they demanded money from her.
“She convinced them that she had left Sh45,000 in her house and pleaded with them to escort her to the house to pick the money and spare her life,” police said.
One of the attackers took her mobile phone and left while the other escorted her back to the road and raped her again before they boarded a motorcycle to the victim’s place.
Neighbours responded promptly and arrested a suspect.
Though most defilement and rape cases go unreported, police reports indicate there has been a surge in such cases in the last few months.
Last month, a 14-year-old girl was defiled by six men in Bomet.
Five of the suspects defiled the girl and after committing the heinous crime, abandoned her at a shopping centre at night where she was also lured by another man. The man defiled her the whole night and chased her away the following day at around 8am.
The Form 2 student had been sent to the shop at around 2pm but failed to return home, prompting the mother to report to the police.
The girl later said that she was lured by two men riding on a motorcycle who took her from Kyogong shopping centre to Dubai in Longisa, where the two men were joined by three other men.
They defiled her in turns and two of them later took her back to Kyogong centre at around 8pm. At Kipchimatt supermarket in Bomet town, she met another man who lured her to his home where he also defiled her and spent the whole night with her.
The age of consent for sex -the minimum age at which an individual is considered legally old enough to consent to participation in sexual activity –is 18 in Kenya. Any sexual intercourse with a person under this age is illegal.
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