Police in Loitoktok, Kajiado County are investigating a case where the mutilated body of a nine-year-old girl was found dumped in a maize farm.
Police said the minor had been brutally murdered and her body severely mutilated with her eyes gouged out, her right leg missing and her head skinned.
Loitoktok Police boss Shadrack Ruto said the child’s parents filed a report regarding the missing child on January 4, 2022.
On January 12 evening, eight days after the girl went missing, the body of the minor was discovered stashed in a bag in Maili
Tisa in Romboa is in an acute state.
Ruto said the girl may have also been raped before she was murdered.
He said the child’s body was found by some people working on the farms having been brutally murdered.
Police are probing the incident to establish why the child was dismembered.
The body of the deceased was taken to Loitoktok Hospital Morgue awaiting postmortem.
No arrest has been made so far.
