Driver charged with raping and impregnating his two daughters

A man has been charged with sexually abusing his two secondary school daughters in Mwatate sub-county.

One of the daughters is now eight months pregnant while the other is three months pregnant.

The accused (name withheld) was arrested mid November. When he first appeared in court on November 19, he pleaded guilty before the Wundanyi Senior Resident Magistrate Isaac Orenge.

But when the facts of the prosecution’s case were read to him on Wednesday he changed his plea to not guilty before Wundanyi Resident Magistrate G M Gitonga.

The accused, who has no lawyer, was remanded at Wundanyi GK Prison after failing to raise a cash bail of Sh50,000 or a Sh100,000 bond with a surety of a similar amount.

Reports indicate that the suspect worked as a driver in Mombasa before returning to his village where he operates a video/film shop. He divorced his wife when the twins were about one-and-a-half-years-old and never remarried. Reports indicate he raised the children by himself.

Police alleged that he had defiled his daughters for years but used threats to ensure they did not report to anyone. But the tables turned on him when they conceived.

Teachers horrified

When school authorities demanded to know the man or men responsible for the pregnancies, teachers were horrified when they said it was their father. He is said to have committed the offences between January 2013 and February, 2015.

The incest charges are contrary to Section 20 (1) of the Sexual Offences Act No 3 of 2006. The case will be mentioned on December 8 and heard on January 11, next year.

In the same court, a senior Administration Police Officer was charged with rape.

Edward Kondo, 51, denied the charge and was released on a personal bond of Sh100,000 and a surety of a similar amount.

Court summons

The Chief County Prosecution Counsel from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, Gioche Kibui, applied for court summons after the Administration Police corporal, who is attached to Werugha chief’s camp, failed to appear for plea on October 18. Mr Kondo allegedly committed the offence on September 20.

The rape charges are contrary to Section 3 (3) of the Sexual Ofences Act No 3 of 2006.

The case will be mentioned on December 2 and heard 14 days later.