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Women protest over rising defilement cases in Shinyalu Constituency, Kakamega County, on July 6, 2026. [Benard Lusigi, Standard]
Every evening when the final school bell rings in Shinyalu Constituency, Kakamega County, parents no longer breathe a sigh of relief, instead, anxiety sets in.
Many guardians in Shinyalu and its environs now have abandoned their daily chores to meet their children on the way home from school, fearful that another child could disappear.
The fear is rooted in a series of gruesome attacks that have shaken the constituency, leaving families grieving, residents enraged and women taking to the streets to demand action against what they describe as an escalating wave of sexual violence and killings targeting children.
