50-year-old man arrested for defiling seven-year-old girl in Trans Nzoia

A 50-year-old man has been arrested for defiling a seven-year-old girl.

Saboti Chief Protus Wechuli led police yesterday to arrest the suspect at his hideout in Kapretwa village.

According to the administrator, the girl disclosed to her mother that the man, a neighbuor, lured her to his house, where he defiled her and warned her not to reveal to anybody about the act.

It is then that the woman reported the matter to the chief, who called the officers to pursue and arrest the suspect.

RISING CASES

The woman said her daughter was playing with her friends in the evening when the man approached her and asked her to go and pick some fruits from his house to share with her friends. The girl was then led to the house and sexually assaulted.

“She was in a lot of pain and had bruises on her private parts which I noticed when I tried to bathe her and prepare for school,” said the mother.

Wechuli condemned the incident and expressed concern over rising cases of sexual assault against schoolgirls.