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'Why did you send me into the hands of a rapist?' student asks school

A secondary school student in Kuria is seeking justice after her school sent her home landing her into the hands of a rapist and a kidnapper for nine days.

On September 7, Veronica (not real name), a Form Two student at Nyaroha Girls Secondary School, was defiled on her way home, after she was sent away from school under unclear circumstances. She had allegedly been found with someone else’s skirt after which the school deputy principal sent her home.

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