Category Archive for : ‘KENYA’

July 8, 2020
Alice McCool
The Guardian

Child protection organisations in Kenya say more needs to be done to protect young people from exploitation by overseas perpetrators, as the country reports a rising number of abuse cases.

The warning follows the arrest of Gregory Dow, a 61-year-old missionary, who last month pleaded guilty in a US court to sexually abusing girls at an orphanage he ran in Kenya.

It also comes after Kenyan authorities charged a 71-year-old German national in May on counts of trafficking, defilement, indecent acts and child pornography.

Mueni Mutisya, detective chief inspector of Kenya’s

October 10, 2019
Ashley Lime
BBC

“When my father goes out to the bar to drink alcohol, he comes back very angry and threatens to kill me, my mother and my sister,” a 14-year-old girl anonymously wrote in a note she put in what is called a “talking box” at her school in Nairobi’s Kibera slum.
“For a long time I had no-one to talk to and bottled up my issues. But when the talking box was introduced in our school, I was able to speak out by writing on a piece of paper

New York Post

Sherry Hsiao Hwa Chow, a 24 year old American woman working with street children in Kenya,appeared in court yesterday on charges of having sex with underage boys during the last two years.Hwa Chow was arrested Sunday on suspicion of indecently assaulting four boys, all under 18, whowere staying at a Nairobi rehabilitation center for street children. Hwa Chow has been staying inEast Africa for the last three years working with street children.

(Nairobi, Kenya)