An American national who was released from Kamiti Prison back in 2014 after he was charged and jailed on accusations of pedophilia is back in court for reportedly repeating the same crime.
Terry Ray Krieger was arrested on 9th November 2023, and arraigned in court on November 10 pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault and being in the country illegally.
On Tuesday, November 21, the accused who appeared before Magistrate Barbara Ojoo at Mavoko Law Courts in Machakos County for allegedly defiling a 3-year-old girl at Great Wall Gardens apartments, in Athi River was denied bail.
Magistrate Ojoo noted that the accused’s previous criminal records and gravity carry reasonable terms upwards of five years.
The court dismissed the defense’s argument that he is an elderly man who requires urgent medical care saying there is no evidence supplied to the court to show he is ill.
The case will be mentioned on November 27 in preparation for a hearing.
The accused had earlier been convicted of pedophilia, and sentenced to a 50-year jail term on December 2, 2014, after he was found guilty of taking and circulating videos of minors in nude and compromising positions.
In November 2022, Ray, who had been serving his sentence at the Kamiti GK Prison was set free by Justice J.M Bwonong’a.
“In these circumstances, this court finds that to order a re-trial of the appellant would not only be unfair but oppressive as well* ruled Justice Bwonwong’a as he set the American national free.
Ray was jailed after admitting to circulating obscene images of Kenyan underage children using electronic media between May 2013 and October 2014.
