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KenyaTeachers arrested for forcing students to fake sex
As punishment, Kenyan teachers forced primary school students to act out sexual acts in the playground. They risk being fired or even imprisoned.
In the video that has gone viral, four boys in school uniforms perform sex acts under a tree in the schoolyard as teachers look on.
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In Kenya, six teachers have been arrested after a video emerged showing primary school students forced to simulate sex scenes as punishment, police said on Tuesday. In this 29-second video that has gone viral, four boys in school uniforms perform sex acts under a tree in the school yard as teachers look on. In the background, the six teachers can be heard chatting and bursting into laughter as a shirtless child wipes tears from his face.
Police said the video “exposing students to indecent acts” was recorded in Nyamache, a rural town 300 km west of the capital Nairobi. Six teachers, five women and one man, were arrested and “are contributing to the investigation”, police said. They will be prosecuted on appropriate counts.
The law can be very harsh
This incident caused an uproar on social networks, in this largely conservative country. Education Minister Ezekiel Machogu said disciplinary proceedings would be initiated against the teachers and they would be fired if found guilty. Under Kenya’s Sexual Offenses Act, a person convicted of coercing another to commit an indecent act faces a minimum prison term of five years.
Beyond this incident, the living conditions of students in Kenya are regularly the subject of heated debate, whether or not it is the appropriateness or otherwise of corporal punishment, officially banned by law in 2001, or, more recently, on the the duration of the school days.
(AFP)