MOMBASA, Kenya, Oct 29 (AFP) - A German man living in Kenya has been charged with raping his two stepdaughters aged six and eight and infecting them with the HIV virus that causes AIDS, judicial sources said Wednesday.
The 47-year-old man has also been accused before a court in the Kenyan coastal district of Kwale of illegally living with the two girls after the death of his Kenyan lover two years ago.
A children's court had granted custody of the minors to their grandmother, and it was not clear how the man came to live with them in his house in the tourist town of Diani.
"The German is not the girls' biological parent, but he had been living with them and their mother after marrying her in the late 1990s," the court was told by the prosecutor.
The elder girl testified before a magistrate how their foster father used to molest them, forcing them to sleep with him for two years after their mother's death.
A doctor's report presented to the court confirmed the girls were both HIV positive and it was possible they might have contracted the virus from the German.
A verdict and eventual sentence is expected to be handed down next month.
Under a new children's law enacted by the Kenyan parliament last year, rape of a minor carries up to a maximum life sentence in jail.
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