A court in Narok County has sentenced a 50-year-old man to life imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to defiling and marrying a ten-year-old girl.
The man identified as Saigulu Ololosereka, appeared before Narok Senior Resident Magistrate Phyllis Shinyanda.
He was charged with two counts: defiling a ten-year-old girl and marrying her in violation of the law in 2019.
Moreover, magistrate Shinyanda noted in her decision that the 50-year-old was warned of the gravity of the situation after pleading guilty to the charges. However, he maintained that he married the girl because the parents had given her to him for marriage.
The magistrate further stated that the crime was grave and barbaric, and that the victim had to have endured three years of hell.
Furthermore, magistrate Shinyanda stated that the heinous act had a long-term physiological and physical impact because the minor had female genital mutilation before marrying and later had a caesarian section when giving birth.
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Likewise, the magistrate observed that, despite being warned of the gravity of the offense, the accused man showed no remorse, but instead insisted that the young girl was his wife, whom he had married three years before.
Nonetheless, as she read the sentence, the magistrate echoed that she had taken into consideration the age of the defiled girl, who, in addition, had been impregnated, and that the man has been defiling the minor for the last three years.
The judgment according to her would serve as a warning to would-be perpetrators.
The senior magistrate sentenced Saigulu Ololosereka to life in prison for the first count of defilement and three years for the second count of early marriage, which he will serve concurrently.
The state prosecutor, Tito Wanga expressed satisfaction with the verdict given the gravity of the offense.
Nevertheless, the culprit has 14 days to appeal.
