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Rape and defilement are crimes under Kenyan law. Yet, between April 2024 and March 2025, 3,464 rapes and defilements were recorded in Kenya by Gender Based Violence Recovery Centre (GVRC). This translates to about 10 every day. Which is sad given that even one incident is one too many.
If you ask Phyllis Atieno*, 25, from Huyani village in Koru, Kisumu county, nothing can prepare a woman for the intense horror of an attack.
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