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A girls’ secondary school in Nairobi is on the spot for allegedly covering up the defilement of a Form One student by one of their teachers. Highridge Girls School in Nairobi’s Parklands is alleged to have protected the Mathematics and Biology teacher, while risking the life of a 15-year-old student who was reportedly abused on October 7.
The school allegedly took the victim to hospital on October 10 after fellow students refused to go to class over the matter. The matter was later reported at Parklands Police Station.
It has also emerged that a school official who took the victim to hospital allegedly ordered her clothes to be washed in a bid to tamper with evidence.
Attempts to get the school’s side of the story were futile after the institution’s security blocked journalists from seeking audience with the principal.
The victim’s mother, who was away from Nairobi says: “We first received an anonymous call informing us that my daughter had a problem. Later, the police called and asked my sister to go to Parklands Police Station. The fact that I have not received any call from the school till now has disturbed me a lot because I expected them to be the first ones to inform me about the incident; not the police.”
She told a local TV station that: “I’m told that the principal did not inform us because they did not have our contacts, but according to my daughter’s schoolmates, the principal was aware of the incident but told students the school was still conducting investigations.”
She further explains, “The teacher ordered my daughter to wait in the staff room during evening preps. He followed her and before she could get there, pushed her against a latrine wall and raped her.”
She said her daughter was threatened by the suspect and the school’s principal not to report the matter.
Even though the victim was allegedly given post-exposure prophylaxis medication for HIV at a nairobi hospital, the mother is worried because “My daughter keeps on asking if she will be okay.”
Hillary Okeyo, 27 (pictured above), who was charged with defilement and indecent assault of a 15-year-old student, denied the charges before Chief Magistrate Daniel Ogembo at the Milimani Law Courts and will wait until October 16 to know whether he could be released on bail.
