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Parents roped in to help stop teen pregnancies

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Parents at a sensitisation forum in Mwala Sub-County, Machakos County, June 18, 2024. [Rose Mukonyo, Standard]

In 2021, news broke that 3,000 underage girls in Machakos County were pregnant or had delivered during the Covid-19 lockdown period. Out of these, 96 were from the Mwala sub-county alone.

Within the same period, more cases of defilement of children under the age of 11 years were also reported, with many of the cases being handled in kangaroo courts where the culprits were never brought to book.

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