US EditionKenya's child sex trade: BBC Africa Eye's secret filming exposes the 'madams' of Maai Mahiu
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"They are still children, so it is easy to manipulate them just by giving them sweets," said one woman caught on camera by the BBC - "I have to have sex without a condom or they will kick me out, I am an orphan."
The BBC gave the video and all the information they found to the Kenyan police last March.
Secret Filming Exposes the ‘Madams’ Involved in Kenya’s Child-Sex Trade
A BBC Africa Eye investigation has revealed how women, known as “madams”, have involved children as young as 13 in prostitution in Kenya. In the transit town of Maai Mahiu, in Kenya’s Rift Valley, trucks and lorries pound the streets day and night transporting goods and people across the country into Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The key transport hub, just 50km (31 miles) east of the capital, Nairobi, is kno…
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