A Thika court has remanded a man for attempting to rape a prostitute and failing to raise a Sh300, 000 bond.
The Court heard that the man attempted to rape and brutally assault a prostitute in Thika town.
The assailant appeared before the Thika Senior Principal Magistrate and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
The magistrate directed that the accused be released on a Sh300, 000 bond with a surety of a similar amount and set a hearing date for the case.
The victim while narrating the full account of her torment, says the culprit approached her as a normal customer only for him to attack her when she refused to have unprotected sex.
“I told him to use a condom but he refused, fought me and tried to forcefully have sex with me. First he hit me on the head and then severally on my back,” explains the 27-year-old who came within seconds of being raped.
The woman who is a mother of two, says the blindly angry offender endlessly beat her up while shouting at her saying she must adhere to his sex demands.
“He held my throat and began to strangle me with his bare hands. I bit his hands and that’s when he let hold of me. I rushed to the window screaming and calling the security man,” says the woman who joined the oldest profession two years ago.
Luckily she says that the security man together with his colleagues responded to the unrest and broke into the room and apprehended the suspect.
“He was taken to Thika police station where he was booked and put into custody,” she says.
She then went to Thika Level 5 hospital where she received treatment for head and back injuries and was asked to go the next morning to fill the p3 form.
“Despite the pain I was experiencing, I woke up very early in the morning and went back to the hospital, filled the p3 form and took it to the police station,” she adds.
At the police station, she says she found the man’s siblings who tried to persuade her to settle the matter out of court but she vehemently refused and vowed to proceed with the case until justice is served.
“The police officer in charge of the case told me that the perpetrator’s family wanted to pay me Sh50, 000 but when I remembered what I went through I vowed to proceed with the case to its logical conclusion,” she revealed.
She now hopes that upon the completion of her case, a harsh sentence will be imposed against the man to act as a warning to men who have the habit of sexually assaulting sex workers.
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