Charity, whose mother died in 2005, says the father brought her some medicine to terminate the pregnancy. Rural Education and Economic Enhancement Programme, an NGO working in the county, has recorded 52 incest cases in the past eight months. When such cases are reported, the victims are cursed, punished and excommunicated from the community.”Yet prosecuting the cases is not easy. Like Charity, 14-year-old Shantel (not her real name) was defiled by her father at the age of nine. Ambasi warns chiefs and their assistants against settling such cases, saying it’s only the Director of Public Prosecutions who can file or terminate such cases.

Source: Standard Digital June 04, 2021 19:28 UTC