A 52-year-old man will serve life imprisonment for defiling his 16-year old daughter.
Kibera Senior Residence Magistrate Irenee Kitagwa on Friday convicted Francis Mutemi after she found him guilty of the offence.
Kitagwa ruled that the prosecution had proved that indeed the accused committed the offense on his 16-year-old girl.
“It is the responsibility of the father to protect the child in all manner and circumstances, however the accused person who is the father to the defiled child did not protect her and instead preyed on her sexually, therefore the court has found him guilty and sent him to life imprisonment, such people should be omitted within the society,” said the Magistrate.
The magistrate said that the evidence provided in court by Doctor Shako Kizzie from Nairobi Women’s hospital proved the charges against Mutemi as he violated his teenage daughter’s rights.
According to the witnesses’ account, the accused repeatedly defiled the girl on various dates between December 20, 2016, and 2017.
The investigating officer Okalla Otieno, in his evidence said the child was impregnated by the father who later forced her to abort.
The first incident was reported to have taken place while the girl’s mother was away on a journey, the court heard.