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Sex, money and guns: Pretty thugs take over crime world

Claire Njoki’s burial at her grandmother’s home in Murang’a on May 21. (Photo: File/Standard)

The brutal killing of two pretty gangsters in one week has brought to the fore the trap that many young impressionable women fall into when they are lured into the life of crime.

The allure of quick money, affirmation from society as well as protection from sexual molestation are leading girls barely out of their teens in some of Nairobi’s most deprived estates into a life of crime, and death.

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