A nine year old girl from Evureve village, Mitoma sub location of Butere Sub County has passed away after she was defiled and badly injured by a person known to her.
The late Sharon Angulu Akungwi was recuperating at the Kakamega County General hospital for the past one month after the incidence but could not take it due to the severity of the injuries she sustained.
According to her father Alfred Murenga, the minor was abused by a 20 year old suspect who she revealed to the police.
The incident occurred on the 25th of April 2022 at around 3pm when the deceased was on her way to help her mother who runs a posho mill in the village.
Murunga alleges that his daughter was defiled in a sugar plantation and was left to die there by the suspect.
The suspect, 20 year old John Makokha is under police custody and the family is now crying for justice.
The body is lying at Kakamega County General hospital morgue awaiting post mortem.