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12-year old girl rescued from two marriages in one month

At 12, her father said she was too old to go to school and so she would be married off (Photo: Robert Kiplagat/Standard)

A 12-year-old girl has been rescued by authorities after she was married off to two men in a span of one month in Maji Moto village, Narok South.

The Standard caught up with Naisula (not her real name) yesterday at the Narok Children’s Department offices after she was rescued from the second marriage, this time to a 35-year-old man.

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