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Shattered dreams of girls who became teenage mums

Staff
1 min read
Published 21 February 2022

In Summary

• Girls grow up thinking of careers and their parents of future help out of poverty

• Defilement derails this, while fleeing of suspects and cops' inaction hinder justice

21 February 2022 - 05:00

On a night walk to a shopping centre one day, a teenage girl from Kilifi South constituency was accosted by a stranger who defiled her.

Salma Dama* (not her real name), now 15, recalls how a...

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