| Published Wed, May 16th 2018 at 19:15, Updated May 16th 2018 at 19:28 GMT +3Ali Ismail Chaka at the Mombasa court on Wednesday 16th May 2018. A court has acquitted a man charged with defiling a 12-year-old girl, saying that the victim failed to identify the accused as the one who assaulted her. The girl said the accused, Ali Ismail Chaka, was her boyfriend and had asked her to visit him, but did not state whether they had intercourse. The accused denied that he was the girl's boyfriend and claimed that she was his friend's girlfriend. The accused told the court that the mother of the complainant knew about her daughter’s affair with his friend.

Source: Standard Digital May 16, 2018 16:24 UTC