BY WINSTONE MUSISI
A farmer has been accused of eloping with two schoolgirls aged 15 and 17 years and defiling them for three months.
The suspect whom police identified as Samuel Kanyi was on Friday, January 7, 2022, charged in an Eldoret court.
He, however, denied the charges of defiling the minors between October 2021 and January 1, 2022.
The two girls are said to have disappeared from their respective schools – prompting a wild search by their parents and the police.
The girls were later rescued by police officers – with the help of local administrators and members of the public.
The court heard that the two girls were found inside a house belonging to the accused.
The victims who appeared weak and scared, were taken to a local public hospital for medical examination and treatment.
The suspect who appeared before the Eldoret Principal Magistrate Onkoba Mogire Kanyi pleaded not guilty to the charges read before him.
He was released on a Sh200,000 bond and a surety of a similar amount with an alternative cash bail of Sh100,000.
In the same court two men were charged with defiling minors aged between 13 and 16 years old.
The two were identified as 18-year-old Kelvin Ouma who was charged with defiling the 13-year-old girl in Langas estate in Eldoret town on December 29, 2021.
The other suspect, Linus Kimali, was charged with eloping and defiling girl a 16-year-old girl in March 2021 at Barsombe village in Moiben Sub County.
The two suspects denied the charges and were released on Sh200,000 bond each with similar surety.
The cases will be heard on January 24.