A DCI officer attached to Magarini sub-county was on Monday arraigned in a Kilifi county to answer to defilement charges.
The officer, George Nangoye pleaded not guilty to all the four charges leveled against him.
He appeared before Kilifi senior resident Magistrtate Geoffrey Kimang’a.
In the first count, Nangoye was charged with defilement contrary to section 8(1) as read with section 8 (4) of the sexual offenses act number three of 2006.
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The court heard that the police officer defiled the 16 years old minor identified as S.R.F on an unknown date in September 2021 in Marereni, Magarini sub-county.
He also faced an alternative count of committing an indecent act with a child contrary to section 11 (1) of the sexual act number three of 2006.
The court heard that on an unknown date in the month of September 2021 at Marereni area in Magarini sub-county, he intentionally and unlawfully used his fingers to penetrate the vagina of SRF a minor aged 16 years
He was also charged with another count of abuse of a position of authority contrary to section 24 (2) (c) of the sexual offences act number three of 2006
He was released on a bond of Ksh 200, 000 and a surety of a similar amount or a cash bail of Ksh 40, 000.
The case will be coming for pretrial on January 11th 2023.
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