“He told me to refute everything I had told my mother a day before, otherwise I was going to have problems with him,” Awuor says. “On Wednesday morning, I wrote a letter to my mother, explaining what happened, and I refused to come back for lunch. She might have asked him because he threatened me on Thursday morning,” she narrates with a faraway look. When the Star visited, she was among 22 girls who remained behind at the centre. It has a capacity of 76 girls but before schools closed, it had 40 girls, who are gradually being integrated back to the society.

Source: The Star April 09, 2021 01:30 UTC