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6, 000 cases of defilement reported in 2014

Peace Initiative Kenya Kisumu County Co-ordinator Caren Omanga advise women in Seme Constituency on how to report sexual offences. (PHOTO: MAUREEN ODIWUOR/STANDARD)

On November 25, 2009, Miriam (not her real name) was outside playing with her 16-year-old brother when his father summoned her. He wanted her to fetch him a glass of drinking water.

She hurriedly took the water to his father in his bedroom as ordered, hoping to quickly join his brother who was still having fun outside. But this was not to be as his father did not need water, but had set devious trap to quench his wicked form of thirst.

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