Nyeri man sent to jail for 30 years over incest

By WAINAINA NDUNG’U

A 39-year-old Nyeri town resident has been sent to prison for 30 years for defiling his 18 year old daughter and infecting her with HIV/Aids.

The father had denied committing the heinous act of incest at King’ong’o estate on March 25, 2011 at a house he shared with the victim’s stepmother.

Outgoing Nyeri Senior Principal Magistrate Evans Makori said he believed the girl’s testimony and that of other witnesses.

The magistrate also found the accused guilty of a second count of willfully and deliberately infecting the minor with HIV/Aids after he defiled her without protection.

“Medical evidence indicates the accused is infected and he knew it but chose to have unprotected sex with his daughter. He knew the danger it posed to her. He could infect her,” said Makori.

The magistrate only stopped short of putting the accused in prison for life because immunisation cards provided by the daughter’s mother failed to ascertain her real age. The magistrates chose to take her age as 18 and therefore not a minor.

Evidence tabled in court showed that the accused approached his daughter who lived in the same estate with her aunt and asked her to go to his house to wash and cook for him. He committed the crime she had finished  washing and cooking for the father. She however managed to escape and she reported the matter to her aunt.

The accused will be in prison for 15 years as his sentences run concurrently.