A pregnant woman in kisii is nursing injuries in hospital after she was dangerously injured by a mob for sexually assaulting her step-daughter.
Winnie Kwamboka, the pregnant woman, was attacked after she inserted a hot knife in her nine-year-old stepdaughter’s private parts as punishment after she took Ksh20 from the house to buy a snack.
The locals explain that the girl’s parents passed on 6 years ago and she was left in the care of her stepmother who lives with her in their rented apartment.
Coming to her rescue from the mob, police officers rushed to the scene and took both the girl and the stepmother to the Kisii Level Six Hospital where they are being treated.
Police reported that the primary school going girl sustained burns on her thighs, buttocks and her private parts. It is also revealed that, since the death of her parents, the minor is mentioned to have been subjected to frequent assaults from Kwamboka.
According to the Constitution of Kenya, sexual assault is defined as when, any person unlawfully penetrates the genital organs of another person within any part of their body or of another person.
Or when an object is manipulated by another or that person except where such penetration is carried out for proper and professional hygienic or medical purposes.
Additionally, the law clearly stipulates that any person guilty of the sexual assault offence is liable to face conviction to imprisonment for a term not less than 10 year but which may be enhanced to life imprisonment for life.