Children in Kenya suffering from a hidden epidemic

 

Due to severe whipping at schools, children in Kenya suffer. Children can occasionally be beaten so badly that they go unconscious. Kenyan schools frequently use corporal punishment, which hurts the kids.

The 15-year-old Kenyan teenager Caleb Mwangi remembered the whipping episode when he was unable to get out of bed. He was severely thrashed by his instructor at his Kenyan school when he was thirteen years old for stealing food for breakfast. He was placed in a coma and spent 11 days in the hospital’s critical care unit (ICU). According to his father Fred Mwangi, “When I arrived there, he couldn’t get out of bed. He was speechless.

Using sticks, Caleb Mwangi was thrashed. The surgeon had to remove a significant amount of skin from his thighs due to the depth of his injuries. His face, back, limbs, and even legs were all lacerated. According to his mother Agnes Mutiri, “His whole body was like this.”

Right now, a scar runs the length and width of his back, emphasizing how vicious the deed was. He was beaten by Nancy Gachewa, the director of Gremon Education Centre, a school in Bamburi, close to Mombasa, because he had taken five chapatis and consumed them with tea.

There is an ongoing lawsuit against the teacher.