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Kenyan girls trading sex for food: One woman's battle to help

The alcohol lining the 12-year-old Kenyan girl's stomach did nothing to quell her hunger pangs.

So when one of her mother's drunken customers, in the one-room drinking den that doubles as their home in Nairobi, offered her a boiled egg in exchange for sex, she agreed.

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