This archive report was first published on 1 December 2019.
On December 1, 2019, a 17-year-old boy from Naivasha, Nakuru County, was arrested by police for allegedly killing a 16-year-old girl after she rejected his sexual advances.
The suspect, a Form Three student, allegedly lured the girl named Valerie Njeri to his parents' house on Thursday afternoon when his parents were out, before committing the act.
According to Naivasha OCPD Samuel Waweru, the suspect stabbed the Form Two girl ten times, killing her on the spot at his parents' home in Mirera area, and then hid her body under the bed.
He removed the body early Friday morning and dumped it outside her parents' gate.
Speaking to the media, the girl's father John Nduno said he and his wife had left their daughter to run their shop on Thursday as they attended a burial in Laikipia.
“When we returned in the evening, Thursday, we looked for Njeri everywhere, but we did not find her. On Friday morning, a neighbor knocked on our door and told us that our daughter's body was lying at the main gate,” said Nduno.
