Shakahola ordeal: Couples were forbidden from having sex, parents caned children who asked for food

Two months after a starve-to-death order was issued, Salama Masha strapped her one-year-old daughter to her back and ran outside the forest.

Together with her four other children aged between eight and two who were on the fourth day of dry fast, they were exhausted, deprived of food and water and had endured Messianic cult leader Paul Makenzi's orders for the last two years.