Justice was served on Monday when a man accused of defiling of an 11-year-old girl was freed after the child testified to lying so as to frame the accused.
The accused, Maurice Muhanda was charged with defiling the minor on December 16, 2018, in Rosterman village, Kakamega county.
However, in what was a shocking revelation, the girl told Chief Magistrate Bildad Ochieng' that she had been compelled by her mother to lie and implicate Muhanda for the crime.
Unable to live with the guilty conscience, the minor revealed that “This is not the first time my mother has asked me to implicate a relative. There is another defilement case against my uncle that she also forced me to lie about.
“My mother has a habit of framing innocent people to get them punished whenever she disagrees with them,” she divulged.
Following the testimony, the prosecution led by Lawyer Paul Juma withdrew the case against the accused.
“In view of the minor’s confession to the effect that her mother had compelled her to implicate the accused falsely, I wish to withdraw my case against him,” Juma declared.
In turn, Magistrate Ochieng' dismissed the case.
Earlier on, the mother had told the court that her daughter was on her way from church when Muhanda allegedly defiled her by dragging her to a nearby sugarcane farm.
She further alleged that the man had infected her daughter with a sexually transmitted disease having taken her to Kakamega County Referral and Teaching Hospital for treatment.
