A Senior Resident Magistrate Hon. Duncan Mtai based in a Kitale court has handed a religious leader aged 45, imprisonment of five years.
According
to a report by Nation, Bernard Magina was found guilty of sexually trying to
molest one of the altar girls.
"I
think that the prosecution has proved their case against the accused beyond any
reasonable doubts. I, therefore, convict him to five years imprisonment, with
14 days right of appeal," ruled Hon. Mtai.
The accused
reportedly attempted defilement over the minor in September 2018 at Kapsaina
Trade Centre, Trans Nzoia county.
The court
got to know how Fr. Magina attempted to defile the minor in his car. On that
fateful day, the minor claimed how the man of God told her to visit the church
evening at 6 p.m.
It's only
after the girl overstayed when her mother left in her search. "I then sent
her siblings to go look for her in vain that is when I went to look for her at
the church only to find her inside the priest vehicle that was parked outside
the family," the court heard from the girl's mother.
In attempts
to cleanse himself, Fr. Bernard Magina told the court how the minor stormed his
car, knocking the window forcing him to roll it down for her.