Parents of Mwonge Junior Secondary School girl who was kidnapped from a dormitory and defiled in a nearby thicket two weeks ago have accused officers at Chuka Police Station in Tharaka Nithi County of laxity in their investigations.
Speaking to the media, the father of the minor from Nyeri Central Sub-county, Nyeri County said two weeks down the line police are yet to arrest any suspect or even update him on the progress of the investigations. The incident happened on March 24 between 1am and 3am.
He said her 12-year-old daughter who was only one month old in the school is still traumatized from the physical and psychological torture by the criminal and can only be served with justice with arrest and prosecution of the criminal.
The angered father said according to sources within the school, the main suspect is a gardener employed by a member of the school’s board of management who lives near the school.
“I suspect that the school could be trying to cover up the matter because of its alleged relationship with the main suspect,” said the father.
He said according to her daughter, a panga-wielding-masked man entered the dormitory through a window near her bed and dragged her out using the back door as he gripped her neck tightly with his arm to ensure she doesn’t scream.
The cruel man got her out of the school through a small gate on the fence into the nearby bush where he defiled the girl and later returned her through the same route and that is when the minor woke up the matron who was sleeping a few meters from her bed.
Chuka Sub County Police Commander Paul Kuria told the media last week that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officers were doing everything possible to bring the criminal to book but had not yet arrested anyone.
He said medics at Chuka County Referral Hospital screened the girl where she was taken the same morning and confirmed she had been defiled.
A similar incident happened in the same school last year and the case is still active in court with the matron and watchman facing defilement charge and an alternative charge of failing to protect a crime.
