Police in Homa Bay are looking for man who escaped after defiling a 10-year-old girl and strangling her in a maize plantation.
Detectives said the man run away after the minor identified died at Kamwombo village in Kamenya sublocation, Rangwe constituency.
They arrested a woman who is said to have been with the suspect when the minor was being defiled at her home.
Police say the suspect accosted and got hold of the girl when she was going to pick a jerrican in the house to fetch water in a river.
The suspect who hails from Kisumu county is said to have visited the woman for prayers.
According to a police report, the man got hold of the minor before leading her to the farm and defiling her. He later strangled the minor using his hands.
Residents said they came to know of the incident when one of them found the minor in the farm lying unconscious before picking and taking her to the hospital.
The girl was first rushed to Nyagoro dispensary for first aid and later transferred to Homa Bay County Teaching and Referral Hospital before was pronounced dead.
Medics at the hospital established that the girl was defiled.
Homa Bay county children services director Peter Kutere said they are working with the police to have the suspect arrested.
He said they are tracing the location of the suspect.
“The woman is in police custody. She will tell us the exact home of the suspect who escaped after the incident,” Kutere said.
The woman recorded a statement at the DCI office in Homa Bay town on Monday as police begin hunt for the suspect.
