A Nairobi based house help has been sentenced to serve 8 years in prison for defiling a 13-year-old boy for 8 months in 2020 and 2021.
While passing the sentence senior principal Magistrate Esther Kimilu considered the fact that the child has never recovered from the sexual assault by the 34-year-old woman.
“I have considered the mitigation of the accused and the probation report, I have also considered the victim report and the fact that the victim has never recovered from the incident,” Kimilu said.
During the sentencing, the magistrate also noted that the accused person was married at a tender age of 14 years according to the probation report filed in court and that she is also a victim of circumstances.
“Owing to the issues stated I hereby exercise my discretion to sentence the accused person to serve 8-years imprisonment, the said sentence shall be served partly in custody and partly non-custodial,” Kimilu ruled.
In February 2021 the accused V.N.W was arraigned and charged with defiling the 13-year-old boy for eight months and exposing the adolescent to pornographic content.
At that time, it was alleged that V.N.W committed the offence in Mwiki area, Kasarani, Nairobi County between July 2020 and February 2021.
She was also charged with promoting a sexual offence for allegedly showing the minor pornographic content.
Further, she was charged with performing an indecent act with a child.
The incident, according to documents presented in court, was discovered by chance as the parents disciplined the boy on February 21.
The boy’s sister had complained that she had lost her phone while in the house. After enquiring from her adolescent brother and sister, the two denied taking her phone leading to her parents’ intervention.
The parent’s intervened by beating up the boy, who was unable to stomach the pain, and confessed that he had been using the sister’s phone to watch pornography after allegedly being introduced to the vice by the house help.
Alarmed, the parents rushed the boy to a clinic for a medical check-up and reported the incident to the police.
Police said the boy revealed that the house help began the abuse by first showing him videos of people engaging in sexual intercourse.
This grooming, police said, continued until the house help started physically sexually abusing the boy.
