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‘This is not happening to us; it must be a dream’

By Mercy Kahenda

Baby Salma Waithera is an infant in great pain; a pain that refuses to be soothed by her mother’s sweet lullabies. Her feeble cry as her mother struggles to clean a gaping wound on her left leg would move a stonehearted sadist to tears.

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