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Shocking figures on crime among children

It's 9am on Tuesday. A boy (name withheld), who ordinarily should be in a classroom, is instead in an unfamiliar territory.

The boy, who is barely 10, is in the dock at the Children's court at Milimani in Nairobi, facing an arson charge.

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