A football coach in Kilifi is set to spend the rest of his life in prison after he was charged with sexually assaulting minors.
The minors aged 15 years and below were recruited in the pretense of coaching them only for him to expose them to obscene videos and silencing their families with financial support.
Peter Muriithi had been fined a Ksh 90 million fine or serve the 10 more years in prison over the offense heard before a Kilifi court.
“A former football coach is set to spend the rest of his life in prison after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) successfully tabled evidence in a Kilifi court implicating him in the defilement of young boys.
Further to the life imprisonment sentence, the suspect, namely Peter Muriithi was fined Ksh.90 million or in default serve an extra 110 years in prison for child pornography, being in possession of videos with obscene images of a minor aged 11 years, trafficking in persons for the purposes of exploiting them sexually contrary to Section 3(1) as read with Section 3(5) of the counter trafficking persons Act No. 8 of 2010.
Kilifi Principal magistrate Ivy Wasike sentenced the coach after he was found guilty of defiling the minors who had been under his care as their coach.
Prosecution detailed to court how the accused, who managed a football team consisting players under the age of 15, would recruit the minors and offer their families financial support as a way of buying their silence for his actions.” said ODPP
The incident is reported to have occurred between the year 2022 and 2023 in Mwembe Tayari area of Malindi sub-county.
“The offences were committed between 2022 and 2033 around Mwembe Tayari area, in Malindi sub-county. The suspect has 14 days to appeal against the sentence.” said ODPP
