Taxi driver arrested for defiling minor in car

A twenty two-year old taxi driver operating the Maua-Laare route in Meru was on Tuesday afternoon arrested allegedly defiling a minor in his car.

The driver, identified as Franklin Mwenda, was arrested by police officers who were on patrol in Laare reportedly defiling the fifteen year-old.

Mwenda is currently being held at the Maua Police Station as investigations into the matter continue.

The girl (name withheld), said that she had been sent by her mother from Kangeta to Maua town to collect money from an aunt, but the aunt never showed up.

The girl said that when darkness fell, she decided to walk back home but was approached by Mwenda, who offered to take her to her aunt’s house.

On reaching the destination, Mwenda is said to have asked the girl for fare, but the girl only had twenty shillings which she offered to him.

The driver allegedly refused and asked for two hundred shillings.

The girl says that Mwenda then forcefully undressed her and forced her to have sexual relations with him in the car.

A senior police officer at Laare police station, who spoke on request of anonymity, said tests from the hospital they took the girl to tested positive of sexual intercourse with bruises in her genitalia.

Mwenda will be arraigned in court once investigations conclude.