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| Kinyua is said to have locked the girls inside the church as they were returning chairs that had been borrowed to be used in a funeral/FILE |
A 20-year-old man has
been sentenced to 100 years in jail for sexually abusing three girls in a
church in the village of Kangaru in central Kenya.
Kenya's Capital News reports:
Harrison Kinyua,
20, admitted trapping the girls in the church last December as
they returned chairs borrowed for a funeral, the AFP news agency
reports.
At
the time two of the girls were aged 13 and the other 10.
After
molesting the girls he bought them chips to buy their silence but they
still told their parents about the incident, AFP says.
In
his ruling, Magistrate Maxwell Gicheru, who heard the case in Embu
town, said the evidence proved without any doubt that Kinyua
had committed the crime, Capital News reports.
The
sentence should act as a deterrent, he said.
It
is not clear if the man received sentences for each assault
individually - and that these added up to 100 years.
But journalists believe the
judge intends the man to serve 100 years.
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