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Fury as girls desert families to live in cleric’s ‘holy sanctuary’

Some girls after they were rescued by police from rented houses in Mwingi town on Thursday. INSET: Mountain of Healing and Deliverance church where the girls are indoctrinated. [Philip Muasya, Standard]

When Catherine Muyathi joined the Mountain of Healing and Deliverance church in Mwingi town about a month ago, she did not know the horror ahead in the journey for spiritual nourishment.

The mother of six is now agonising over her 14-year-old daughter who has seemingly lost her faculties after an encounter with a local preacher.

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