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A couple in the Coast area of Kawangware slums, Nairobi County, has been left with egg on their face after their 7-year-old son simulated sex and showed off his bedroom skills while playing with others.
The boy is reported to have, albeit playfully, grabbed a female playmate, raised his skinny bottom and began grinding his crotch against her backside suggestively.
He only stopped after a shocked neighbour who spotted him yelled through her window, bringing him to heel.
“The boy was rubbing himself against a neighbour’s daughter as they played outside my house. I was so shocked and shouted at him to stop it,” said a woman who only identified herself as Matilda.
“I rushed out and pulled the kid a side. When I asked him why he was doing that, he formed a long face and sulked. But after cajoling him, he said he had copied it from his parents,” she added.
When she reported the boy to his mother, she was very remorseful and embarrassed. The disgraced couple is having a hard time enduring mockery and ridicule from neighbours.
This comes against the backdrop of yet another scandalous incident in which seven teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19 were busted in a house in the same slum, watching adult movies.
A 17-year-old boy, only identified as McDonald, invited his playmates to his parents’ house, and entertained them with the blue movies.
‘Funny soundtracks’ emanating from the house got a neighbour’s attention, who discovered the teenagers watching the X-rated content after he sauntered by.
The neighbour, only known as Alex, was sitting outside his house when he heard weird sounds.
“What made me suspect that something odd was going on was the fact that I had seen a couple of boys troop into the house earlier. McDonald himself kept peeping outside,” reveals Alex.
Reportedly, McDonald had been charging his friends Sh10 to watch the movies. When further probed, he exposed a movie vendor from whom he had been getting the adult entertainment for Sh50.
Alex says for a moment he was at a loss. Then, he resolved to call the host’s mother and ask whether she knew what was going on in her house.
The neighbour explains that before McDonald’s mother— a shopkeeper in Kawangware market — arrived, the children had taken off.
McDonald returned later that night and could not respond to questions from his mother.
In fact, he threatened to vanish if his mother kept on pestering him. The mother does not know how to handle him.
Why would a teenager resort to the business of showing his friends pornographic material? Where did he learn about it at his tender age? Locals were left wondering.
The two incidents, perhaps lift the veil on the moral decadence among teenagers, especially in informal settlements where parents share bedding with grown up children, and nobody cares about the kind of entertainment they access.
This could be just the tip of the iceberg. And, as one startled neighbour in the slum quipped, “We are yet to see the worst”.
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