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Confessions: My cousin whom I trusted and looked up to sodomised me, left me broken

A total of 408 sexual violence incidents against children below five years were reported in Nairobi in 2016, according to Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) data. A lot of people are going through depression, low self-esteem and some even contemplating suicide after going through rape ordeals. In Kenya cases of suicide are on the rise and a good number of these cases are either because one has gone through rape or other forms of sexual violence.

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