Police are searching for a pastor alleged to have defiled and impregnated more than 20 girls.
The pastor who hails from Kitui County had been asking parents to send their children to him for prayers.
However, some girls who attended the prayers failed to return back home which left parents worried.
Parents, whose daughter sat for this year’s KCPE exam exposed the pastor after storming his home and demanding to know where their daughter was.
Angry parents
After the parents of the missing girl stormed the pastors home, revelations emerging of how the pastor had been preying on minors in the area.
Mwingi Sub-county OCPD Peter Mutuma confirmed the incident, saying more than 10 girls were rescued from rental houses neighbouring the pastor’s house.
Some parents claimed that the ‘man of God’ has been intoxicating some of the girls before taking advantage of them.
Teen pregnancies
His wife was arrested although the said clergyman managed to escape when local residents gathered around after parents stormed his home.
In 2018, the Kilifi county children affairs department released a shocking report which indicated that 13, 624 pregnancies were reported among school children aged between 15 and 19.
Other than the 13, 624 cases, the children officer said an additional 290 cases were reported among girls aged between 10-14 years.