By Sophie Njoka
Police in Mombasa are investigating a case in which an elderly couple is suspected of sexually molesting their two grandchildren and infecting one of them, a nine- year-old girl with HIV.
Kisauni OCPD Richard Ngatia said the father of the minor reported the matter to Nyali Police Station where it had been referred to the Children’s office.
Ngatia directed that the minor undergoes medical examination at the Coast Provincial General Hospital (CPGH), before charges are preferred against the couple.
However, the accused, who are the minors’ maternal grandparents, are yet to be arrested as investigations are going on.
The father said the two allegedly molested the children aged seven and nine sexually for the last three years after they took over custody when he separated with their mother who has since remarried in Tanzania.
“When my estranged wife went to Tanzania, she left the two kids in the care of her mother, who has been staying in their single room in Kongowea. I learnt of the rape ordeal a few weeks ago after my child fell sick and was taken to hospital where the examination results confirmed that she had been raped and infected with HIV,” he said.
The nine-year-old corroborated the story, alleging that her grandfather has repeatedly raped her in the presence of her grandmother, who warned her against revealing the same to anyone.
“He usually tells us to sleep without clothes and then he switches off the lights and tells me to lie down, then he starts doing it to me and when I complain, my grandmother threatens to throw me out into the darkness,” she said.
The minor’s father further claims the young boy has repeatedly been defiled by his grandmother and fears he, too, could have contracted HIV.
“I fear the worst for my son, there is a possibility he, too, could have been infected because the old woman usually defiles him and they have refused to hand him over to me,” he said.
However, the girls’ grandmother dismissed the allegations saying the young girl contracted HIV after she was bitten by a classmate.
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