A male teacher at Moi Girls' High Schol Nairobi has been ordered to take a DNA test in connection with the rape of a student at the institution.
The teacher, whose identity has been protected for security reasons, is suspected to have raped the student on Friday night inside her dormitory, and the DNA test will either place him at the scene of the crime or absolve him.
The police order came as shocking details emerged on how the teenage victim spent hours on the floor of her hostel, alone, terrified and bleeding after being raped by a man who was among a group of three who attacked students inside their dormitories.
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According to investigators, the test is important in determining sexual violence cases as it allows forensic experts to compare the profile of a suspect against the evidence of bodily fluids found on the victim.
The results of the tests can, therefore, carry more weight in court than verbal submissions.
On Sunday, reports emerged on how students raised alarm to the school principal and the matrons but both of them did not respond to the issue until morning.
The students revealed that their colleague, a 15-year old Form 2 student, was raped at around 2 am while two other students were assaulted by unknown persons.
Despite the other students knocking several times on the matron's door, they noted that she responded only at 5 am after the intruder had left.
One student recounted: "Three men entered the cubicle shared by four girls. One girl managed to escape unhurt. The men then attempted to rape two other girls but they escaped, although they were beaten. One attacker managed to rape one of the girls.
"We then returned to the hostel because we were scared. We could not sleep and we entered the cubicles that were near the exit. At 5 am, the matron came and we told her about the incident and she called the guards and they all went to the cubicle where the victim was.
"She was found on the floor of the cubicle, bleeding and looked weak and too traumatised to talk, she was just crying. We do not know if she was gang raped or raped by one person," some students recounted.
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