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Mum sold me for Sh5,000 to a rapist when I was 14

Jacinta Wanjiku left their village home in Kakamega to go to school only to end up in the house of a rapist who had reportedly bought her from her blood mother. [Stndard]

A 24-year-old woman has narrated how her mother sold her to a rapist for Sh5,000 after finishing her KCPE exam in 2008.

Jacinta Wanjiku had just finished her papers and like any other child in the village, she helped her mother sell alcohol and run errands as she waited to join secondary school.

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