A 45-year-old man who has repeatedly been bunking his 15-year-old daughter and infecting her with HIV, has said he did that because he did not want to die alone. He has, so far, been arraigned in court for that singular act.
It was gathered that the father who stays with his daughter at Muthara village in Tigania East, Meru County of Kenya, reportedly took her to the farm where he turned her to sexual object on several occasions.
Thereafter, the victim fled home for fear of further onslaught on her, but was later found and taken to Muthara Police Station.
Upon her release, the girl refused to accompany her father home, telling the police that her father had repeatedly turned her to sexual object and that she had squealed to her teachers, who could not do anything about it.
When the investigating officer took the man’s clinic card, he discovered, to his dismay, that he had enrolled to collect anti-retroviral drugs, and upon further investigation via conducting a medical test, he discovered that both the father and his daughter tested positive for HIV.
Having been arraigned in court, the accused admitted to defiling his daughter to ‘ease her sexual urge’, adding that he committed the offence because he did not want to die alone and leave the little girl to suffer. He was convicted accordingly.
Principal Magistrate of Tigania Court, Paul Wechuli, said he was convinced that the 45-year-old man had committed incest and knowingly infected the minor with HIV and held that he had betrayed his daughter’s trust and so deserved to serve the maximum sentence.
He gave him 14 days to appeal after which he would be sentenced to prison in maximal terms.