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When defilement victims have to share the same home with their abusers

Some of the rescued girls who escaped FGM at Komotobo Center in Kuria East sub-county on December 11. Police are protecting centres for fear of attacks by locals. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]

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

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