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Boda boda rider to serve 25 years for sexually assaulting six-year-old girl

A court gavel. (Courtesy)

The Court of Appeal in Mombasa has upheld a 25-year prison sentence for the bodaboda rider who defiled a six-year-old schoolgirl on February 18, 2015, in Kilifi town.

A magistrate court found Benjamin Mwanga guilty of a lesser charge of sexual assault and handed him 25 years. He appealed, but Justice Reuben Nyakundi upheld it.

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