Musaab Hassan Jumale, a Somali national, charged with stealing a Kenya girl aged 15.
A Somali national has been charged in court with stealing a 15-year-old Kenyan girl from her parents in Eastleigh, Nairobi County, last month.
At the same time, a caretaker was charged with trafficking a 14-year-old girl from Nairobi County to Bungoma County for sexual exploitation.
Musaab Hassan Jumale, 21, and Enos Juma Wanyama were separately charged and denied bond, with the prosecution saying they are flight risks and that the offences they committed beckoned harsh prison terms.
The Makadara Law Courts in Nairobi.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) filed four counts against Jumale of stealing a child from the custody of her mother, defiling her, indecent assault and being in Kenya unlawfully.
The DPP told a Makadara Court that Jumale is a Somali national and is in Kenya unlawfully since he has no valid legal documents to allow him live in Kenya.
The trial court heard that Jumale, on November 14, 2025, within Eastleigh, Starehe sub-County of Nairobi, entered the home of the girl whose name is abbreviated as SMA and took her away from the custody of her parents.
The court further heard that police intervention led to the recovery of SMA before being taken out of Kenya to Somalia, the motherland of Jumale.
Besides the offence of child theft, Jumale faced three other counts of sexually molesting the underage girl.
The DPP filed three counts against Wanyama of trafficking a child for sexual exploitation, defilement and indecent assault.
Mr Enos Juma Wanyama in court. He denied trafficking a girl aged 14 from Nairobi to Bungoma for sexual exploitation.
Wanyama is said to have trafficked the minor from Ruai in Nairobi County to Bungoma to exploit her sexually.
“The accused herein took away the girl from Ruai Nairobi to Bungoma counties for three months between August and November 2025 for sexual exploitation,” a prosecuting counsel told the court.
Jumale and Wanyama, who denied the charges filed against them, applied to be freed on bond saying it is their constitutional right.
However, the prosecution opposed the release of Jumale saying he is a Somali national found living in Kenya unlawfully, and that if released, he might disappear through the porous Kenya-Somalia border, and it will be difficult to trace and bring him back to face justice.
The prosecution equally opposed Wanyama's release, arguing that he would jump bail. Wanyama was a caretaker of a residential plot in Ruiru.
Both Jumale and Wanyama were denied bond with the trial magistrate saying the prosecution gave compelling reasons for denial of bail.
Both Jumale and Wanyama were remanded in prison custody until the cases are heard and determined.
The cases will be mentioned in a fortnight for pre-trial directions.
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