Kenya's school floggings: The children suffering from a hidden epidemic
BBC Africa Eye investigates an increase in severe and sometimes deadly beatings at Kenyan schools.
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BBC Africa Eye investigates an increase in severe and sometimes deadly beatings at Kenyan schools.
Caleb Mwangi was beaten so severely at his school in Kenya after he took extra food at breakfast that he was put into an induced coma and spent 11 days in an intensive care unit.
The 15-year-old still finds it hard to process what happened to him.
Several young people in Kenya have died or been maimed as a result of corporal punishments heaped on them in schools, BBC Africa Eye Investigation has revealed. According to the report, cases of corporal punishment are still prevalent in schools in Kenya despite being outlawed in 2001. In ‘Taught to Fear: Corporal Punishment in the Classroom,’ the BBC spoke to young victims and their families seeking justice, as well as the Kenyan teachers fighting back to end the brutal form of punishment in classrooms in the country.