A 30-year-old man is being held at Busia police station after defiling a 9-year-old girl at Bulanda estate in Busia town. The accused was caught in the heinous act in his shop on Monday afternoon by a buyer who raised the alarm and attracted locals. The girl lives next to the shop which the man runs. “We were seated at our stage waiting for customers when we saw people milling around the shop and when we went there we found the young girl bleeding. Her father had also come and took her to police, then to the hospital,” explained one of the locals who is a bodaboda operator at Bulanda estate.
The accused was taken to Busia police station by locals who have condemned the incident and called on the law enforcers to ensure he faces the full force of the law, “This is a very unfortunate incident which we condemn in the strongest terms possible. This is a married man with one child. The girl he has defiled is like his daughter and we don’t understand how he started defiling her. He is their neighbour and what he has done is totally unacceptable. We call on the police and the court to ensure he is handed many years in jail so that it be a lesson to others who may have such ill motives.”