Migori/Nairobi, 30. maj, 2011 (IRIN): Siden hun opdagede sin blot 13-årige datters graviditet for en måneds tid siden, har Juanita adskillige gange opsøgt landsbyens lokale leder. Hun ønsker straf til manden, som gjorde dette samt retfærdighed for sin datter. Den skyldige er datterens lærer.
“She told me it was her teacher who did it. I confronted him and he admitted [he was the father] – he told me we could just settle it as adults,” Juanita, 47, told IRIN at her home in Migori District.
“We have been going to the chief because the teacher tells me he wants to marry my daughter and take care of the child, but I don’t want that. Let him take care of the child who is a result of his bad behaviour, but leave my daughter alone because I want her to go on [with her education],” she added. “I am poor and now both my daughter’s and my future have been ruined by somebody I respected most.”
Recent media reports implicating an HIV-positive teacher in western Kenya in the sexual abuse of five girls aged between seven and 13, and a Muslim scholar in the country’s eastern Coast Province in the sexual abuse of a dozen boys, have left Kenyan parents questioning just how safe their children are in school.
A 2009/2010 government report showed that at least 1,000 teachers had been dismissed from duty in that period for sexually abusing children. A separate study conducted between 2003 and 2009 revealed that 12,660 girls were sexually abused by their teachers, yet only 633 teachers were charged with sexual offences. Furthermore, 90 percent of sexual abuse cases involving teachers never reached the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC), responsible for monitoring and implementing teachers’ codes of conduct.
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