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Court releases man after girl, 12 insists he was her boyfriend

Ali Ismail Chaka at the Mombasa court on Wednesday 16th May 2018. He had been accused of raping a 12-year-old girl in 2016.

A court has acquitted a man charged with defiling a 12-year-old girl, saying that the victim failed to identify the accused as the one who assaulted her.

The girl said the accused, Ali Ismail Chaka, was her boyfriend and had asked her to visit him, but did not state whether they had intercourse.

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