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Man serves three years in jail for fondling teen’s boobs

She told the court she could not scream for help because Damas had held her by the throat as he fiddled with her bosom

A villager’s touchy hands landed him in the cold cells for almost three years where he has been cooling his heels before the High Court intervened last week to set him free.

Mjomba Damas from Taita Taveta County has been in police custody for the better part of the last three years after he was found guilty of fondling and suckling the breasts of a 14-year-old girl.

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