BY PHOEBE WANJOHI.
A Nairobi court has allowed police to detain a German National businessman linked to cases of Child trafficking, defilement and child pornography for 21 days.
Milimani senior resident magistrate Muthoni Nzibe allowed police to continue detaining Thomas Scheller in order to complete investigation in the matter.
This is after DCI- Anti Human Trafficking and Child Protection Unit (AHTCPU) filed miscellaneous application seeking to allow police to complete investigations.
In his request detective Lawrence Okoth told the court that the suspect was arrested on Monday and they needs 62 more days to complete investigation. But the magistrate gave the police 21 days.
Okoth informed the that court Scheller is involved in the investigations of a case Child trafficking, defilement and child pornography cases.
He further said that the suspect was arrested on May 4,2020 by the DCI officers from AHTCPU outside the German Embassy,Nairobi County together with a Kenyan minor who was rescued suspected to be a victim of Child trafficking and defilement.
The victim is a minor and is a pupil at Ngara primary school in Kisumu.
Okoth told the court that the suspect led the officers to lodging in Ngara at Nairobi county, where he has been spending with the victim since April 30,2020 until May 4,2020.
“Despite the partial lockdown in the country the suspect managed to travel with the15 years old victim all the way from Kisumu to Nairobi where he was nabbed,” said the detective.
He said that the suspect has been under the security radar in relation to several child pornography in Kwale county and its environs vide Chief magistrate court, Mombasa miscellaneous No 87/2020 and chief magistrate milimani law courts miscellaneous 989/2020.
The matter was reported to Ukunda police station.
Okoth told the court that cyber intelligence has revealed that he shared child pornographic to a registered sexual offender in Germany
The investigators wants more time so as to take the victim for medical examination, trace the parents and witnesses in Kisumu
