The High Court in Nairobi has stopped criminal proceedings against a minor accused of destruction of private property.
This is after the mother of the minor who is facing criminal charges at a Ngong law courts, filed an application at the Employment and Labour relations court seeking to stop the said proceedings.
Esther Beja a resident of Kwale, through city lawyer Elizabeth Ochieng says her child is a victim of child labour and that the respondent in the case who is a pastor has been engaging in a ring of child abuse, child trafficking and labour.
The Employment and Labour relations court has also ordered the Kajiado County, Labour Officer and Children officer to investigate the pastor over claims of abusing minors in his house.
The case will be heard on March, 20, 2025.
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In the application, the applicant is seeking court orders to have the respondent restrain from verbally engaging the applicant, the applicant family and friends or any other person associated with the applicant.
She also added that the applicant be restrained from harassing, intimidating stalking and engaging in any behaviour which amounts to emotional, verbal or psychological abuse of the applicant.
Mrs Beja further accused the respondent of using the minor to perform household duties despite the fact that he had agreed to take the child to school while under his custody.
“In a sudden twist of event, the respondent started engaging the minor in household chores instead of taking her to school” said the lawyer.
In the matter, it is alleged that Ms X a minor who is charged with malicious damaged to property was staying with Daniel Egesa.
According to the charge sheet, it’s alleged that she damaged a television valued at Ksh 33,990 the property of Egesa,the offence is alleged to have been committed on the January 13th 2025 in Ongata Rongai township.
Due to financial constraints of the family, former Nairobi governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko came to the rescue of the minor by securing her bond terms.
“Cases of child abuse, where minors are forced into domestic labour as maids or other unauthorized work, must come to an end. The government, through the Ministry of Labour, must take decisive action to eradicate this vice and ensure that those responsible for such abuses face prosecution,” said Sonko after the release of the minor.
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