A Kisumu court has handed a life imprisonment sentence to A 50-year-old Italian man for defiling his stepson.
Paolo Camellini was found guilty of sexually assaulting the three-year-old earlier this year at the family’s home in Manyatta, Kisumu City.
Winam Senior Resident Magistrate Chrispine Oruo ruled that Camellini will be held at the Kodiaga Maximum Security Prison.
“I have noted that the minor was three years old at the time of the incident. I will therefore sentence the accused person to life imprisonment,” Magistrate Oruo said.
Camellini was arrested on February 16 after defiling the boy at the family’s home in Kisumu
He committed the offence on February 15 at the family’s home in Manyatta, Kisumu East sub-county.
He faced an alternative charge of committing an indecent act with a child, contrary to section 11(1) of the Sexual Offences Act No 3 of 2006.
The Italian had visited the child’s mother who was his former spouse.
Court records show that the man and woman legally married in Italy six years ago but later separated before the woman moved back to Kenya.
However, Camellini claimed that they reconciled two years later and accepted the woman together with the adopted child
He had denied the charges.
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