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Kenyan football coach jailed for life for abusing young boys

Nairobi, Nov 8 (UNI) A Kenyan court on Friday sentenced a former football coach to life imprisonment and ordered him to pay almost 90 million shillings (700,000 U.S. dollars) in fines for abusing young boys in his care and possessing child pornography.
The convicted Peter Mureithi will spend an additional 110 years in jail if he fails to raise the fine.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said it had successfully tabled evidence in a Kilifi court in coastal Kenya implicating Mureithi in the defilement of young boys.
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