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Kenya's school floggings: The children suffering from a hidden epidemic

Caleb Mwangi beating has left him with scars all over his back and legs after he took extra food at breakfast. He was put into an induced coma and spent 11 days in an intensive care unit. [BBC]

Caleb Mwangi was beaten so severely at his school in Kenya after he took extra food at breakfast that he was put into an induced coma and spent 11 days in an intensive care unit.

"When I got there, he couldn't leave his bed. He couldn't speak," his father Fred Mwangi told the BBC.

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