Parents have a duty to protect children from harmful practices

Detectives exhume bodies from shallow graves within Shakahola forest. [Marion Kithi, Standard]

Detectives looking into the Shakahola cult deaths have found that most of the bodies exhumed from graves in the area belonged to minors. This came as data on missing people suspected to be members of cults compiled by the Kenya Red Cross showed that 245 of the 444 people reported missing and thought to have died due to Paul MacKenzie's teachings were minors.

A look into MacKenzie's teachings disclosed cultic tendencies that led people to death. In one of his teachings, Mackenzie explained that children should not be an obstacle in advancing the spread of the gospel.