42-year-old Kakamega woman handed life sentence for defiling 11-year-old boy and infecting him with syphilis
Roseline Museve will be spending her entire life in prison after a Kakamega court found her guilty of defiling an 11-year-old boy.
The 42-year-old woman committed the offense on September 2nd 2017, at Shiseso village in Kakamega South. The court heard that Roseline lured the minor into a thicket, removed his shorts and defiled him.
She also infected the 11-year-old with syphilis. The boy knew Roseline very well and that explained why he was easily persuaded to follow her into the thicket.
Kakamega Principal Magistrate Hazel Wandere said that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt that Roseline was guilty of the offense before she was handed the life imprisonment. She was given 14 days to appeal.
Similar cases
There has been a rise in cases of woman defiling boys, in May this year 24-year-old Judith Wandera from Kisumu was sentenced to 15 years in jail for having sex with a 16-year-old boy.
And in July 2018, 23-year-old Dorcas Chepng’etich from Kericho was arrested for repeatedly sleeping with a 15-year-old boy. The boy dropped out of school this year while in Class Seven and would repeatedly visited Dorcas at her house where they would engage in unprotected sex.