Kenya: Early pregnancies in Bungoma blamed on parents, teachers

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    Early pregnancies in Bungoma blamed on parents, teachers

    • County leads in teenage pregnancy and defilement cases mostly caused by teachers
    • Perpetrators go as far as selling their assets including land to compromise parents and the affected child

    Bungoma TSC director Ibrahim Adan has blamed the rise in teenage pregnancies among schoolgirls on teachers and parents. He regretted that the county was leading in teenage pregnancy and defilement cases mostly caused by teachers but parents are compromised to hide evidence. Speaking at Musakasa training institute in Bumula constituency, Adan complained that his office was having problems interdicting the culprits for lack of evidence. "We are told that teenage pregnancies and defilement of our girls in this county is mostly done by my teachers but when you come on the ground both the parents and the girls deny," he ...


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