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Boda boda rider jailed for 30 years for defiling, killing Grade Six pupil
A 41-year-old boda boda rider accused of defiling and killing a Grade Six learner before dumping her body by the roadside will serve 30 years in prison, an Eldoret court ruled on Wednesday.
Justice Reuben Nyakundi found Thomas Nyongesa guilty of defiling and murdering the minor on October 15, 2021, in Lumakanda, Kakamega County.
Nyongesa, who is a close neighbour to the deceased’s family is said to have lured the pupil with a ride on his motorcycle as she was heading home from school on the fateful evening and took her to his house where he defiled her.
The court heard that the slain pupil’s genitalia were severely damaged, a pointer that she could have been defiled and tortured before her mutilated body was dumped by the roadside near her home.
In his judgment, Justice Nyakundi stated that the offense was committed against a child of tender age who was yet to realize her purpose on earth.
“This was a gender-based crime of a young girl whose safety and security should have been guaranteed by the convict if he had exercised and restrained in exploiting the vulnerability of his victim to the offense,” he ruled.
The victim’s mother sobbed in court as she narrated the last moments with her daughter on October 14, 2021. She had prepared breakfast before seeing her off to school in the hope that they would catch up in the evening after school as usual.
The distraught mother broke down on several occasions on the witness stand, struggling to recount the events of the fateful day when her daughter was reported missing prompting a frantic search.
“My daughter left for school on the morning of October 14 but did not return home in the evening, something that caused a lot of fear and tension in my family because she had never failed to return home,” she narrated to the court.
The family had assumed their daughter might have passed by her grandmother’s place and decided to spend the night there.
The court heard that in the morning, the suspect arrived at the victim’s home and asked her mother to accompany him to identify a child who had been abandoned by the roadside.
“I obliged and when we arrived at the scene I found out that the mutilated body which had been dumped by the roadside was my daughter’s, and she had been defiled and tortured,” she recounted, tears rolling down her cheeks.
Next to her daughter’s lifeless body were her exercise books.
“The man who is behind the death of my daughter is well known to me and my children since we built our home on land we bought from his elder brother,” she told the court.
In his mitigation, the convict pleaded innocence in the matter, claiming that he neither knew the victim nor her mother.
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