Anger as gang that raped teen walks free
What you need to know:
- Liz (not her real name), now confined to a wheel-chair is currently at Gynocare Fistula Centre in Eldoret awaiting treatment
- On Tuesday, Kenyans, sent e-mails and called the Nation newsroom to find out how they could help the teenager
Kenyans on Tuesday reacted with anger, shock and disbelief to a story carried in Nation’s DN2 of a teenager who was raped by six men and left for dead in a pit latrine.
What appears to anger the public most is that the gang, whose horrendous act left the 16-year-old girl with a broken back and an obstetric fistula, is yet to be arrested three months after the attack in Tingolo Village of Butula, Busia County.
In the exclusive DN2 story, the girl, was attacked on the night of June 26 as she headed home from her grandfather’s funeral.
The attack was reported at the Tingolo AP camp the following morning, but three of the suspects were let off the hook after police asked them to slash grass at the camp. Three of their accomplices, who disappeared after the crime, have since returned to the village where they roam freely.
SPINAL INJURY
Liz (not her real name), now confined to a wheel-chair is currently at Gynocare Fistula Centre in Eldoret awaiting treatment. However, doctors say she will need to undergo double surgery, to fix the spinal injury and to repair the fistula — a condition that leaves a woman leaking urine and stool — in extreme cases such as hers.
Dr Hillary Mabeya, one of the country’s only eight fistula surgeons, said corrective surgery for the fistula cannot be done before the injury is fixed.
On Tuesday, Kenyans, sent e-mails and called the Nation newsroom to find out how they could help the teenager. Nation Media Group will inform our readers on where to send the help.
