5 Moi Girls' teachers ordered to give DNA samples in rape probe
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Investigations into an alleged rape incident at Moi Girls School in Nairobi have gathered momentum with eight suspects under detectives’ spotlight.
On Monday, five more male teachers and two subordinate staff were ordered to give DNA samples to investigators.
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On Sunday, detectives ordered a male teacher to take the test in connection with the rape that allegedly happened on Saturday night.
The man, whose identity the Nation is not revealing yet for legal reasons, is suspected to have, jointly with others, raped the girl inside her dormitory.
The DNA tests will either place the eight suspects at the scene of crime or exonerate them.
Such tests are important in determining sexual violence cases as they allow forensic experts to compare the profile of a suspect against the evidence of bodily fluids found on the victim, and therefore, carry more weight in court than verbal submissions.
The police orders, copies of which the Nation has seen, came as shocking details emerged of how the teenage victim spent four hours sprawled on the floor of her hostel cubicle, alone, terrified and bleeding, after being raped by a man who was among a group of three who attacked terrified students right inside their dormitories.
Although other students raised the alarm, the school principal and the matrons did not respond to the until morning, when the victim was found on the cubicle floor, the Nation has learnt.
The students said their colleague, a 15-year old Form 2, was raped at the Elgon Hostel at around 2am while two other students were assaulted by unknown persons.
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And despite the students knocking several times on the matron’s door, they said, she responded only at 5am hours after the intruder had left.
“Three men entered the cubicle shared by four girls. One girl managed to escape unhurt. The men then attempted to rape two other girls but they escaped, although they were beaten. One attacker managed to rape one of the girls,” the students recounted.
When the three escaped, they said, they woke up the girls in the other cubicles, raised the alarm and went to the Matron’s house and tried to wake her up, but she did not open the door.
Leaders and ordinary Kenyans have condemned the incident that brought back memories of the 2017 fire that left 10 girls dead.
On Monday, the Council of Governors condemned the incident and urged the national government to take the matter seriously and bring the perpetrators to book.
Council Chairman Josphat Nanok said the county bosses empathise with the victims and the school community over the incident.
"It is the council view that children should be safe at all times especially when they are in school," Mr Nanok said when he delivered the State of Devolution address in Nairobi.
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