Nairobi, Kenya: A secondary school teacher was Wednesday morning charged with defiling a Form One student at Highridge Secondary School in Nairobi.
He appeared before Chief Magistrate Milimani Daniel Ogembo and denied the charges. The teacher was remanded until Friday when the ruling on bail will be delivered.
Administrators of the school are in a spot for allegedly covering up the defilement incident.
They allegedly protected the teacher, while risking the life of the 15-year-old student, who was reportedly abused last Wednesday.
The institution is accused of inaction for two days and only took the girl to hospital on Saturday after her colleagues refused to go to class over the issue.
It has also emerged that a school official who took the victim to the Nairobi Women’s Hospital allegedly ordered her clothes to be washed in a bid to tamper with evidence.
The victim’s mother said the 27-year-old Mathematics/Biology teacher ordered her daughter to wait for him in the staff room during evening preps.
“The child told me the teacher followed her immediately and took her to a latrine wall where he raped her,” said the mother.
She said her daughter was threatened by the suspect and the school’s principal not to report the matter.
It was not until Monday when her fellow students threatened to protest that the school reported the matter to Parklands Police Station.
