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Defilement cases in North Rift on the rise

More than eight children are defiled every day in the North Rift region, with 50 per cent of the cases being perpetrated by close family relatives or guardians.

A case in point is a father from Kapseret sub-county, Uasin Gishu County who was sentenced to 20 years in jail for sodomising his six-year-old son, and nine-year old daughter, and infecting them with them with HIV and Aids.

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