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How Nairobi's city slum girls compromise their innocence after falling into wrong hands

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Allure of quick money leads teenage girls into a life of drugs crime, and death. (Courtesy)

As the population in informal settlements continues to swell, the rate and scale of improvements have failed to match unrelenting densification and consolidation.

The allure of quick money, affirmation from society as well as protection from sexual molestation are leading girls barely out of their teens in some of Nairobi's most deprived areas into a life of crime, and death.

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