A Busia court has sentenced a middle-aged man to 18 years imprisonment for defiling and impregnating a 12-year-old schoolgirl.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (ODPP, in a statement on Friday, said the suspect committed the offence while working as a teacher in one of the local schools in the area. The girl later had a miscarriage.
Appearing before Busia Resident Magistrate Eunice Serem, the suspect was found guilty of the offence and slapped with the sentence after the prosecution proved the case beyond reasonable doubt.