An elderly father was ordered to gang rape his daughters and refused - so he was raped as well in Kenya. Joseph N, 82, was made to watch as his two daughters were raped by a
gang of 50 young men who then ordered him to join in the violence. When he refused to take part, they raped him'
Speaking
of the attack on January 2, 2008 he said:
"They said they will teach me
a lesson. They beat and raped both my daughters; so many of them. Then
they told me to rape my children. I refused. "They hit me with a metal bar and some teeth came off. They pulled out some of my other teeth one by one. They broke my chin." "They beat me all over. My skull cracked a little. They did a very bad
thing to me. They made me their wife; they made me a homosexual."
One of his daughters contracted HIV from the rape and died in June 2014.
The other one had been badly beaten and shot with a poisoned arrow.
They amputated her leg but she kept ailing and died in May 2015. Joseph N, who has been left with chronic health issues, now cares for some of his grandchildren.
Hundreds of victims of rape and brutal sexual assaults have spoken
out about their ordeals and the scars they still bear from one of the
most chaotic periods of Kenya's history.
At least 900 women and
girls, and some men and boys, were targeted during a wave of violence
that hit Kenya after the country's disputed 2007 election that saw 1,133
killed.
Nyasiongo F., aged 24, was gang raped with her then 12-year-old sister, who suffered a brain injury during the sexual assault.
She said: "The man was so violent with my sister because she was screaming. He hit her on the head with his fists and she fainted.
"She was in a coma for six months. She is not okay mentally. She does not know how to use a toilet. She faints often.
"Sometimes she gets violent and breaks things in the house. I became pregnant following the rape and I live with her and my son. We have no relative to help us. It is very hard on me."
Some women were abused and
abandoned by their husbands who could not cope with the thought their
wives had been raped and often been made pregnant.
One woman, Akinyi L, said:
"Six men took me and six other women to a nearby bush and raped us.
"My
husband loathed me after the rape. Things became worse after I gave
birth. He would say, “This child is a bush baby. You should have aborted
her.” He was not nice to the child. If he found her drinking or eating
something he would just grab it.
"He also became abusive towards
me. He would tell me, 'Take your bush child and take it where you
collected it from. You are rotten and you should not sleep in my
house.'. One day he came home with another woman and told me to sleep on
the floor. I left him that day in 2009."
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