Meru man sentenced for life for molesting boys

A Meru court has sentenced a 33-year-old man to life imprisonment for sexually molesting two boys in Gitoro Forest, in Meru County.

Chief Magistrate Lucy Ambasi on Thursday ruled that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubts that Nicholas Mutuma had lured the boys, then aged three and seven, and defiled them.

The court heard how he took the boys to a nearby forest to look for his donkeys which he claimed had strayed, but undressed them and sexually abused them.

Dr Winnie Mutunga, attached to the Meru Level Five Hospital testified that the boys’ anal canals were bruised.

The incident which happened on March 11, 2017 was reported after one of the boys’ mother noticed that her son was limping.

The boy narrated how Mutuma, a stone crusher, lured them to look for the donkeys, after promising to take them for swimming later on.

Mutuma warned the boys of dire consequences if they revealed or reported the incident.

Ms Ambasi ruled that the prosecution led by State Counsel James Kinyua had proven all the three ingredients of defilement and case was beyond doubt.

Mutuma has been given 14 days to appeal.

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