I did not want to die alone and leave her to suffer - Man says after being arrested for defiling and infecting daughter with HIV

A 45-year-old man has been handed a life sentence after being arrested and arraigned in court for defiling his 15-year-old daughter and infecting her with HIV.

The convict who lives with his daughter at Muthara village in Tigania East, Meru County of Kenya, reportedly dragged her to the farm where he defiled her on several occasions.

The victim fled to a nearby homestead where she was found and taken to Muthara Police Station. Upon her release, the girl declined to accompany her father home. She told the officers that her father had repeatedly defiled her and her teachers who she told about it, have refused to do anything about it.

The investigating officer took the man’s clinic card and discovered that he had enrolled to collect anti-retroviral drugs. Both the man and his daughter tested HIV positive.

The convict who casually admitted to defiling his daughter to ‘ease her sexual urge', added that he committed the offence since he did not want to die alone and leave the girl to suffer.

In her testimony, the girl narrated how her father would wake her up at night and drag her to the farm where he defiled her. Principal Prosecution Counsel Celestine Matere said the offence was serious as it had affected the girl’s future.

While the father later made a u-turn and claimed that the minor and her mother had framed him up since he had married a second wife, Principal Magistrate of Tigania court Paul Wechuli said he was convinced that the 45-year old man had committed incest and knowingly infected the minor with HIV

Mr Wechuli held that the man had betrayed his daughter’s trust and so deserved to serve the maximum sentence. He was given 14 days to appeal.

Fahdiga1:
Bia OP. Is it only this kind of news that you always comes across? Why do you always derive joy in denigrating men?Don't you have a father and brothers at home or won't you give birth to a baby boy later in life? I condemn the actions of the man but I think you are overdoing things

Bifwoli:
May i remind you in The Bible Lott's 2 daughters got their father drunk they slept with him without his knowledge or approval.Genesis chapter 19 verse 33.

See how evil some women are? There's also millions of women around the world who sleep with men for $$$ and some women today are world famous porn stars.

sapphiere:
I'm a voice to women. I'm bringing awareness of the evil committed by men on a daily basics. I'm not saying women don't commit evil. But ours is not this bad. How would a man sleeps with his own blood? How does it make you guys feel?

sapphiere:
Wonders shall never ever end. You contracted a diseases and you it is wise to pass it to your daughter because you don't want to die alone. You want her to join you in the grave because you two came together. SMH. What I dumb excuse.

Eben if you wanted to give her the disease, how there no other ways to transmit HIV? Must it be through sex?

Dear mothers, keep your girl child far a way from anything male. BE IT HER DAD. The days are evil.

Fahdiga1:
I condemn the actions of the man but is it only this kind of news that you always comes across?

Lucasinho:
Kenya , I am not surprise....

Liposure:
This can't be real

sapphiere:
Wonders shall never ever end. You contracted a diseases and you it is wise to pass it to your daughter because you don't want to die alone. You want her to join you in the grave because you two came together. SMH. What I dumb excuse.

Eben if you wanted to give her the disease, how there no other ways to transmit HIV? Must it be through sex?

Dear mothers, keep your girl child far a way from anything male. BE IT HER DAD. The days are evil.

Fahdiga1:
Bia OP. Is it only this kind of news that you always comes across? Why do you always derive joy in denigrating men?Don't you have a father and brothers at home or won't you give birth to a baby boy later in life? I condemn the actions of the man but I think you are overdoing things

sapphiere:
Your Nigerian brothers do it too. Are even experts at it.

sapphiere:
Haven't you seen or heard men rape their daughters?