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Abandoned baby buried as locals decry stigma against children born with disabilities

Well-wishers offer prayers during the burial ceremony of baby Stephen Baraka. [Standard]

He was abandoned in life and death. Reason? Baby Stephen Baraka was born with deformities.

Baraka was born in 2016 with a deformed face and a cleft palate.

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