The girl, who was a Form Four student, died at the Migori County Referral Hospital.
Police in Migori are holding a secondary school headteacher who is accused of clobbering his daughter to death after he found her in the company of a boy.
Officials say Abidha Rabet, the headteacher of St Juliane Ugari Mixed Secondary School, found his 17-year-old daughter inside the house of her ‘boyfriend’ and descended on her with a cooking stick.