A Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officer based at Mtongwe Naval Base has been found guilty of defiling a 16-year-old girl in Likoni.
George Odhiambo Owino was accused of defiling the girl on many occasions between July 3 and November 16, 2020.
The victim stated that she was in Form Two when her neighbor, Owino, enticed her and assured her that if she consented to be his girlfriend, he would pay her school tuition and other expenses.
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She informed the court that Owino went to their house, and they had sex on her mother's bed while she was at work and her brothers were outside playing.
“She stated that they had sex four times in their home and later discovered that she was pregnant around August 2020,” court papers read.
The court heard that he used to transfer her more minor children to their aunt and spend time alone with the 16-year-old girl in the residence before having sex with her.
He accepted responsibility for the pregnancy, and the student gave birth in April 2021.
The court heard that while promising to care for the victim, Owino only sent Ksh.10,000 and then stopped.
In his defense, Owino stated that the girl had a large physique.
“She told him that she had applied for an ID but it had not come out yet. He stated that the complainant used to do casual work for people and she used to ask him for help and he would offer her food,” the case files say.
The girl would also pay him a visit in the barracks, cook for him, and sleep there.
“They got used to each other and the complainant would go to his house and he asked her for a relationship. It was his defense that he didn’t know she was under 18 years old and he withdrew from the relationship,” read the documents.
