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Top hospital 'detains' officer over rape claim

According to hospital staff, the officers, who had accompanied the victim's parents, dropped the girl off without providing her medical history, raising suspicion.

Operations at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital were yesterday temporarily disrupted as the facility's security team and the public attempted to arrest a police officer accused of defiling a 16-year-old girl.

The officer attached to Ratta police station in Seme Sub-county was in the company of three of his colleagues when they drove the victim to the hospital.

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