Local actors fighting teen pregnancy in Trans Nzoia have decried the increase of killings of the girls to cover up the cases.
Led by Bishop Edward Khaoya of Kitale Family House of Hope, the actors who run Teen Mums Rescue centre, have said that there is an increase in deaths of female teenagers who have active cases in court regarding their pregnancies.
“We have received an alarming number of pregnant teens who are found murdered and their bodies being thrown into bushes of late with the latest incident being of a teen who was coerced by the man who defiled her and impregnated her,” they said.
It is said that the perpetrators fear stiffer penalties and thus resolve to do away with the main evidence which is the girl to weaken the cases.
“When someone hears that he will be jailed for more than 40 years and he is out on bond he resolves to end the life of the prime evidence thus leading to the rampant cases of the deaths,” Bishop Khaoya said.
Khaoya has further castigated the move by courts to award bonds to suspects saying that it has led to an increase of kangaroo courts in the area.
“When a suspect is released on bond, he makes sure he resolves the case within the family circle with the family sending the girl away thus weakening the cases. It means key witnesses do not show up to testify against the accused,” he explained.
The bishop has further lamented over the increase in numbers of teenage mothers who got their second pregnancy due to stigma and poverty.
