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Muslim cleric jailed over child sex tourism

A Muslim cleric has been jailed for 10 years by a Nakuru court for facilitating trafficking of a 17-year-old orphaned girl in 2011 to a Lebanese in Nairobi for sex tourism.

Sheikh Ali Samoja, then head of Bilal Muslim Mission Centre in Nakuru, was charged with trafficking the minor who was allegedly defiled by Sayyid Muktadha before he fled the country.

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