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Kilifi casual labourer sentenced to life for sodomising five-year-old cousin

Hands in handcuffs. [File, Standard]

A 26-year-old casual labourer has been sentenced to life imprisonment for sodomising his five-year-old cousin in Kilifi County.

The man whose name was withheld to protect the minor was found guilty of defiling his cousin contrary to Section 8(1) as read with Section 8(2) of the Sexual Offences Act.

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