Plight of young children broken after exposure to justice system

Some of the Juvenile Remandees at Kamiti Prison. [Elvis Ogina.Standard] 

For a 15-year-old named in court papers as CM, there is no reason to live, thanks to the harsh treatment she has received from Kenya’s justice system.

The minor was jailed after she was found guilty of selling illicit brew. She was locked up at the Nakuru Women GK Prisons, an adult prison, despite her age. It later emerged the police mistook her for an adult just because she had a child and was breastfeeding at the time of her arrest. That made CM a child in conflict with the law (offender).