Kiambu choir teacher imprisoned for 20 years for defiling minor

Once a week at a local church in Kamangu Village in Kiambu County, members of the choir would meet to practise and prepare for the Sunday service. On August 25, 2009, as was usually the routine, Njeri (not her real name) and her younger sister, Grace, attended the choir practice session. Their choir teacher, James Ndung’u, concluded session at 5:30pm. The other children left but Ndungu called 13-year-old Njeri back and told her to take a jug and cups to the kitchen within the church.

Njeri complied. Unknown to her, Ndung’u was following her. When she entered the kitchen, he got hold of her and made her lie down on the seat.