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‘They prey on our poverty’, Kilifi teen girls narrate ordeal in the hands of men

Kilifi County is leading in cases of teenage pregnancies at 18 per cent.

A group of 125 adolescent girls in Kilifi County have claimed they are abused by men in exchange for favours because they are poor.

The girls, majority from rural areas in Kilifi South constituency, claimed men normally seduce them while going to fetch water, firewood or on their way to school.

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