The defilement case against Stephen Nzuki Mutisya, a former children's home director in Utawala, currently serving a 100-year jail term over the defilement of 4 boys from the institution appears to be taking a new turn after a former student from the said children's home informed Court that students were recruited and promised rewards to testify against the director.
JA, a former student from the children's home who is currently a university student, told Chief Magistrate Bernard Ochoi at Milimani Law Courts today that Brigit, who in 2016 was a sponsor of the institution, engineered the recruitment of boys to fabricate statements before police and say that Nzuki had sexually abused them.
"The issue was brought up by Brigit in 2016 when the matter of child sexual abuse arose and the accused was arrested. We were recruited by Brigit so that we come to Court to say that we have been sondomized by the accused." said the student.
According to the student, Brigit had promised them help when they testified in Court.
The student further said that a student named NM a boy in a children's home working under Brigit told them that there would be a lawyer who will be going to the institution for them to record statements, which would later be used for them to get help from Brigit.
The student said that they made a complaint to the police about the recruitment of boys to give false testimony against the director.
Nzuki was the director of Save Children Reconciliation Education Assistant Mission (SCREAM) Africa in 2016 when Brigit filed a complaint about sexual child abuse against him.
The case was distributed to three different courts due to the high number of victims.
He was sentenced in 2022 in one case to serve 100 years in jail.
The other cases are still active in Court. The case will proceed for a hearing June 20.