KDF Soldier Arrested for Defiling 12 Year Old

By Soko Directory Team / Published March 7, 2022 | 2:25 pm

KEY POINTS

Private Elly Kipkoech, is currently being processed for arraignment in accordance with military parlance, after being positively identified by the victim.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations’ Anti Human Trafficking and Child Protection Unit, remains on high alert following an increase in sexual offenses and commits to bringing every perpetrator of the vice to book, regardless of the positions they hold in society.

Detectives have arrested a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldier for defiling a 12-year-old minor on 5^th March 2022 in Langas, Uasin Gishu county. The KDF Private, Elly Kipkoech, based at 9KA, Second Brigade, is currently a guest of the state at Langas Police Station, for taking the innocence of a 12-year-old girl who is a class seven pupil at a local public primary school, in Eldoret town.

The minor who went home at around 7:30 pm told her worried mother that she had reported home late because she had been held hostage by a man who took advantage of her. Upon further interrogation, the mother noticed blood stains on her daughter’s undergarments and pleaded with her to reveal the identity of the perpetrator.

Upon filing her report, Eldoret-based detectives employed digital and cyber forensics to trace the suspect, who had gone into hiding at Green Park estate and placed him behind bars.

Private Elly Kipkoech, is currently being processed for arraignment in accordance with military parlance, after being positively identified by the victim. The two have since undergone medical tests at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital.

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The Directorate of Criminal Investigations’ Anti Human Trafficking and Child Protection Unit, remains on high alert following an increase in sexual offenses and commits to bringing every perpetrator of the vice to book, regardless of the positions they hold in society.

Such incidences should always be reported to the authorities in time so that appropriate action is taken. It is said that a soldier who has taken an Oath to protect citizens can have such ill motives against a minor kid. Such fishy characters are tainting the image of other law-abiding public servants and this will should never be tolerated.

We are all equal before the law. If any of such characters is caught, the law must be allowed to take its course. Meanwhile, parents and guardians should protect their children from any form of harm, be it from strangers or close relatives. Every child’s well-being matters to society.

Article by John Kachibo

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