A General Service Unit (GSU) officer attached to the embassy protection unit was on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 arrested for defilement.
The officer identified as Constable Omar Dae is said to have defiled his daughter aged 9 at their Nairobi residence in Jun 2019.
According to the police, the suspect was arrested after the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) perused through his file and found him guilty of the offence.
“The ODPP recommended that the suspect be charged with the offenses of incest and assault causing actual bodily harm. He has been arrested and placed in custody awaiting arraignment,” police stated.
If convicted the GSU officer could be staring at life imprisonment.
Similar incident to GSU officer’s
In a similar incident reported in May 2021, police arrested a police constable posted in Kirinyaga for sexually abusing his 9-year-old daughter.
The officer is said to have turned against her daughter, and sexually assaulted her after his wife left the house to go to the farm.
The incident was reported by his wife after her daughter narrated her ordeal, she was then was rushed to a nearby health facility where she received treatment.
A report by the women and children’s rights crusaders shows incest has been on the rise within the country.
This according to the crusaders has thrived under the culture of stigma, silence, and fear.
Ironically, the homes are no longer safe for girls as their relatives and trusted protectors are among the top offenders according to the national hotline 1195.
The extent of incest and other sexual abuses is difficult to measure because the crime remains largely underreported and lacks memory.
Section 20(1) of the Sexual Offences Act, says that any male person who commits incest is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than ten years.
However, if the female is under the age of 18 years, the accused shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
