Police have arrested a teacher for allegedly defiling three girls in Chepkoilel, Eldoret. Residents, including village elder John Mwangi, yesterday stormed the suspect’s house after the minors disclosed that the man had repeatedly defiled them in a maize plantation.
Mr Mwangi said although the man was not found in the act, the children aged between 12 and 16, had positively identified him after he was paraded before villagers who were baying for his blood. “We were shocked to learn from the children that the man had been waylaying them and defiling them separately on their way from school,” he said.
He said the children revealed that the latest incident involved a 12-year-old Standard Five girl, who attended a school where the suspect taught.
Mob lynches suspect behind spate of theft, rape cases Mwangi said the man was hired by parents as a volunteer, and he has been teaching social studies, mathematics, Kiswahili and religious studies.
Villagers frog-marched the man from his house, with his hands, tied together. Some of them vented their frustration by caning him. Police who were called picked the man and the three girls. The suspect reportedly admitted having an affair with a 16-year-old Form Two girl and two other minors.
“It is true I have been having an affair with these girls. I have slept with all of them in different locations and they know each other since last year. “I used to waylay them as they returned from school and lure them into maize plantations. I even promised to marry the one in Form Two after she completed her fourth form,” he said, and blamed the devil for his actions.