Man locks up Form 2 girl in lodging for one week, defiles her every single day

By James Gitaka in Uasin-Gishu County

Police in Eldoret, Uasin-Gishu County have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of defiling a 17-year-old girl after locking her up in a self-contained lodge room for one week.

Elphas Kiprotich, an attendant at Blasco Bar in Kerita, Eldoret South was arrested on Tuesday, June 2 after the girl’s mother filed a report at Cheptiret Police Station saying her teenage daughter had been sexually abused by the suspect.

According to the minor’s mother, her child went missing on Saturday, May 23 and returned home on Sunday, May 31.

The girl, a Form Two student at a local secondary school, allegedly told her parent that on May 23, she met Kiprotich on her way home. The suspect is alleged to have asked the victim to join him at his work station – Blasco Bar – where he offered her a soft drink mixed with alcohol.

After the minor was intoxicated, Kiprotich is alleged to have carried her to one of the lodge rooms at Blasco Bar.

The girl is said to have told her mother that the suspect threatened to harm her if she screamed or alerted anyone about her ordeal.

The teenager said Kiprotich would force himself on her every single day of the week that she was confined. The sex, she said, was unprotected.

“Throughout the seven days that he locked me up in the lodging, he would bring me food and drinking water. He also threatened to harm me should I let anyone know what he was doing to me,” the girl told police.

The teenager said the suspect allowed her to go home on Sunday, May 31. “He, however, warned me against narrating my ordeal to anyone, lest he come after me”.

The minor’s mother accuses Kapkoi assistant chief of conspiring with Kiprotich to pervert the course of justice.

Police say investigations into the matter have commenced.