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Minor defiled in West Pokot as women demand action

Women rights groups during a protest march dubbed “Keep off our panties”  organised by FEMNET

By WILBERFORCE NETYA

West Pokot, Kenya: As women rights groups marched yesterday over the defilement of a girl in Busia, another girl, a 10-year-old minor in West Pokot County, is nursing spinal cord injury at Kapenguria District Hospital after she was defiled by two middle-aged men.

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