50-Year-Old Kenyan Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Marrying a 9-Year-Old Girl
A 50-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to defiling and marrying a nine-year-old girl.
Saigulu Ololosereka admitted to marrying the minor in 2019 at Entasekera area in Narok South Sub County.
Appearing before Narok Senior Resident Magistrate Phyllis Shinyanda, the accused said he was given the girl for marriage by her father Senteu Ole Mareu.
The court heard that the marriage was unearthed after the minor, now 12 years old, developed complications during giving birth and had to be rushed to Narok County Referral Hospital.
The girl, who was in the company of her husband, then underwent a cesarean section but experienced a still birth. An age assessment determined that she was only 12 years old.
The court granted a request by Narok children’s officer to commit the girl, who is yet to be discharged from the hospital, to Taraja Children’s home in Machakos county.
While issuing the sentence on Wednesday, magistrate Shinyanda said the convict was warned of the gravity of the offense after pleading guilty to the charges, but he maintained that he married the girl because the parents had given her to him for marriage.
She noted that the act had a long-term physiological and physical impact on the victim, who was subjected to female genital mutilation before marrying and later had a caesarian section when delivering a baby.
She observed that despite being warned of the gravity of the offense, the accused showed no remorse and insisted that the young girl was his wife.
The magistrate sentenced Ololosereka to life in prison for the first count of defilement and three years for the second count of early marriage.
He has 14 days to appeal the sentence.
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This primitive culture of…
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This primitive culture of child abuse needs to be put to a stop!
No respect for civilization at all.
Death is what this man ought…
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Death is what this man ought to have received. How bout now Goin for the parents of the gal.
Parents of the girl should…
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Parents of the girl should be apprehended too.
How stupid can a person be,…
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How stupid can a person be, he insist that he was given an eleven year old child to marry. Sick! really a sicko . He deserve everything he gets. This is the 21st century. This fool will have a real bad outcome in the penitentiary. I hope he gets it real good in prison Good riddance. This is a crime of the highest order, marrying and raping a child!
Mental health? Also the…
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In reply to How stupid can a person be,… by Godhavemercy (not verified)
Mental health? Also the father should be jailed, red flag? Why give her to an old man?
This sorry old man ought to…
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This sorry old man ought to be drowned! Where is senator Olekina ledama when we need him - with his $3000 shoe and chest thumping. His people need education. I say his people because he is always wearing those red bed sheets to hoodwink them. He is the next eater under the guise of helping the maasais. He is the gate keeper of the maasai interests -which is just bullshit.
Mohammad the prophet , the…
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Mohammad the prophet , the man supposedly ;the moral guidance of humanity married Aisha when she was six,and consummated the marriage when she was 9years old. This is very shameful of course .So Muslim apologists have tried to change the date to 18 but that has not stuck.So grudgingly defense the union by saying that "in those days that was acceptable". Come on a child is a child regardless of the century...
My question is simple. What is this in some men that drives them to marrying a child? Can you imagine taking her to school to sit with standard one kids as a wife? I am glad women dont do such nonsense; marrying 9 year olds.
Folks I have said,and I will repeat.Its only Science that will bring sanity to humanity,then the laws of the land based on current knowledge will save this craziness.Forget this retrogressive traditions.They are harmful to society.
Read the Quran about the age…
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Read the Quran about the age of marriage. Mohammed said that you can marry a girl at the age 7 and know her sexually when she turns 9.
Hahaha @ Ndugu Imara Daima,…
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In reply to Read the Quran about the age… by Imara (Mpya) Daima (not verified)
Hahaha @ Ndugu Imara Daima, you have thrown abig wrench in the mix.I hear the two big religions Islam and Christianity, say that, if the law of the land conflicts with the word of God, you ignore the rule/law of the land.This means that muslims who follow the Koran to the -T- are quietly marrying children.Wow! I would hate to think so.
OOOouuuch!
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In reply to Read the Quran about the age… by Imara (Mpya) Daima (not verified)
OOOouuuch!
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