So much has been said about the worst form of punishment for rape. In a small village of Tingolo in Busia County, some Administrative Police officers decided that the best they could do to punish six young men who had gang raped a 16-year-old girl was to slash grass! Liz was literally left for the dead as they threw her in an unused 6-meter pit latrine.
Liz's case is symptomatic of a bigger underlying problem - impunity on sexual and gender based violence and questioning due diligence especially on State accountability for violence against women.
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