Police in Mombasa arrested and presented in court a man who allegedly procured an abortion for a 17-year-old minor against her will.
Mtosanga Keah was on Monday, December 19, 2022, arraigned before Mombasa principal magistrate Vincent Adet and pleaded not guilty to charges of procuring abortion.
The court heard that on November 29 at Vyemani area in Likoni sub-county within Mombasa county with another not before the court unlawfully supplied drugs to a child aged 17 years with the intention to procure a miscarriage.
The court also heard that Keah alongside a suspect, who is believed to have impregnated the minor, came up with a plan to have the girl procure an abortion to avoid him being arrested.
The father of the minor is believed to have resolved the defilement matter at a fee.
Police were later alerted of the case by the minor moments after she was forced to take the drugs that led to her miscarriage.
Adet ordered the suspect to be released on a Ksh300,000 bond.
The matter will be mentioned on January 29 for pretrial purposes.
