A 90-year-old granny in Witeithie Estate, Juja Constituency has narrated how she has been sexually assaulted by several young men for more than five years.
Joyce Wanjiru Wangai said some of her rapists are so young to be her great-grandchildren.
In a faint sound, Wangai said only one of the attackers
was recently arrested after he was nabbed by neighbours while allegedly raping her during the day.
“He lifted me from where I was basking in the sun and took me to the house. He raped me several times before I was rescued by neighbours,” she painfully narrated.
Gladys Nyaguthie Gitungo, a member of a Community Health Workers said the latest incident happened last month.
The suspect, who is now in police custody, was in the company of three other who managed to escape.
Nyaguthie said the old woman has endured this pain for long as the rapes occur
almost on a daily basis.
“It has been going on for quite a long time. The cases I personally know of are seven,” Nyaguthie said.
She explains that the granny's nephew whom she once lived with in the same compound
was the first to start raping her.
When residents knew about it they attempted to lynch him but was saved by the authorities.
His house was demolished and ordered to live elsewhere.
“I don’t know where he lives now but he is still a resident of Witeithie even as we speak,” she said.
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It is alleged that the boys take advantage of ‘cucu’s inability to scream due to her age.
Sometimes they use their hands to cover her mouth.
“They usually break into ‘cucu’s house where she lives alone by drilling a hole through the mud walls and open the door,” explains Nyaguthie.
Wangai is currently under medication after she was recently diagnosed with syphilis and gonorrhoea.
“It has been very hard for us as she has to be attended to by a doctor twice a week which is expensive. We fear that these boys might end up killing her,” she said.
The granny has been living alone for more than 40 years after the death of her only son.
Cucu can barely remember her relatives. She says that her rural home is in Ndakaini village, Gatanga Constituency in a place called ‘Kwa Njiri wa Karanja’. Unfortunately, she vows that will never go there due to personal differences with her maternal relatives, Nyanguthie said.
She is, therefore, appealing to the authorities to transfer her to a home for the elderly where she can live peacefully in her old age.
Nyanguthie
blamed insecurity and high immorality rate on drug and substance abuse among the youths.
“The rate of insecurity has skyrocketed with so many muggings and robbery cases being reported. The worst hit are M-PESA traders who report robberies every week,” Nyaguthie said.
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