Man gets 15 years for defiling 12-year old girl

KAKAMEGA: In January this year, a Mumias court sentenced 23-year-old Wycliffe Wamukoya Wesonga to 15 years in prison for defilement.

Wesonga had been accused of committing the heinous act against a 12-year-old girl on September 15, 2012 at Shibale village in Mumias.

The prosecution lined up five witnesses against the accused including the minor who testified that she was in class 4 at Mumias Central Primary School when Wesonga defiled her.

“Wesonga is my immediate neighbour and on the day he attacked me, he came into our house at around 7:30pm carrying a paper bag which had biscuits and a bottle of juice.

He then dragged me into his house, undressed me and proceeded to defile me. While in the process my father called out at the gate and Wesonga handed me the paper bag instructing me not to tell him what had happened,” she said.

Her father told the court that he’d come home early to get cooking oil for his wife’s chips cooking business and said his daughter opened the gate for him crying.

When she told him what had transpired, he immediately went to Wesonga’s house who hid under the bed and refused to come out. He then locked the house from outside, called for assistance from neighbours and together they frog-marched the man to Booker Police Station.

Police Corporal Vincent Ngeiywa told the court that he took the two to Matungu District Hospital for medical examination.

Clinical officer, George Watila, who examined the minor told the court he was able to confirm that Wesonga had indeed defiled her.

In his defense, Wesonga denied all allegations saying he saw the minor and the parents for the very first time in court and that he was an innocent victim of circumstances.

However, Senior Resident Magistrate Samson Ng’etich dismissed all his allegations saying the minor gave a very clear description of him and his house.

“Apparently the accused took advantage of the fact that the victim was alone in the house as her parents worked,” his judgement read in part.

“Results of the medical examination further fortifies the victim’s testimony” he determined.