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Pandemic makes girls easy prey for sex pests

A 13-year-old girl who claims she was defiled and impregnated by a neigbour in Nakuru West Sub-County. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

It is now four months since the government ordered all schools closed to tame the spread of Covid-19 and Carol (not her real name), from Kaptembwo, Nakuru Town West, is pregnant.

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