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Judith Uchi

Judith Uchi (right) of Sauti ya Wanawake, a women’s movement in Coast.

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Kilifi

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Too close for comfort: Mothers hiding dark secrets of incest in Kilifi

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By  Maureen Ongala

Contributor

Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • By the time of reporting there were six incest cases at the children’s department this year.

Behind the doors of village huts in Kilifi, lie dark family secrets of incest and child abuse.

Disturbing cases of fathers defiling their daughters at will have gone unreported for ages due to a code of silence aimed at protecting the sex pests.

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