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Stop outlawed corporal punishment in schools

A parent shows injured her daughter sustained after a teacher beat her at Kaluni Primary School in Kakamega. [File, Standard]

Three teachers at the Kamukunji Primary School in Nyandarua County have been accused of assaulting a Grade One pupil so savagely they severely injured his private parts. It is heart-rending to imagine the violence those adults meted out on a pupil of that age. No matter the provocation, there was no excuse for such a beastly act.

School is a protected environment that ought to be of free of abuse, neglect, violence or any inhuman treatment.

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