Coast records high sexual violence cases as more victims speak out

Gender-based violence cases have increased from 1865 recorded last year to 4,477 cases reported as of June 2022. [iStockphoto]

On July 14, three men were arraigned in Mombasa Law Courts and charged with sodomizing two boys aged 12 and 17 years, in 2017 in Likoni, Mtongwe area.

Omari Mwalimu, Surow Jimale and Colling Godeka were charged before Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku with defilement of the two minors.