Police have launched an investigation into an incident where a 7-year-old boy was allegedly sodomized by a retired primary school teacher at Kotolo village in  Rachuonyo North, Homa Bay County.

The grade three pupil at a local primary school is said to have been sodomized by the suspect inside his house on Tuesday night.

Police say the boy revealed to his mother that the retired teacher lured and sodomized him.

Confirming the incident, Kakdhimu West Chief Margaret Ager says the boy’s mother reported the matter to the assistant chief of the Kayoo sub-location that the suspect committed the heinous act and warned the minor not to reveal it.

Ager says they immediately rushed the boy to a local health facility where a medical report confirmed that he was sodomized.

He added that the suspect lured the victim with Kes 10 and took him to his house where he molested him and warned him not to reveal it to anybody.