A woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend says she acted in self-defense after the boyfriend attempted to rape her.
The 37-year-old woman suspected of stabbing and injuring her boyfriend told an Eldoret judge that she moved in self-defense because he had threatened to rape her.
“I assaulted him because he was about to rape me.” “I would have been raped by this man and possibly infected with a sexually transmitted disease if I had been weak,” Ms Maureen Naliaka told the court.
“If it were not my strength, today I would be the victim of sexual assault and even a subject of grievous harm,” she told Eldoret Senior Principal Magistrate Richard Odenyo.
She was responding to an application by an investigating officer to detain her for five days pending investigations into the case.
Investigating officer Dickson Asievela told the court that the complainant was critically injured by the respondent during a confrontation in a house in the.
