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Defilement: When victims have to share home with their abusers

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 Seeking justice for SGBV has been affected by fear of the judicial process and stigma from society (Shutterstock)

Valence Awuor* 13, recalls the day she left home after her step-father defiled her.

Two days after the incident, her mother told her to carry a bucket of bathing water to the bathroom for her step-father. Instead of simply thanking her for performing the chore, as a father would, he threatened her. 

“He told me to refute everything I had told my mother a day before otherwise, I was going to have problems with him,” Awuor narrates.

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