What to a foreigner may seem to be a gift from Santa Claus traumatizes a Samburu girl because for a Samburu girl that means sex at a young age with a… - Josephine Kulea

Then I saw the old woman bend in to cut the private parts of my sister who was sitting legs apart

My cousin was getting married. She was only 10 years old. I rescued her from the marriage on the day of her wedding. I was with her so I didn’t care even if the wedding ceremony went on. However, I was shocked that her younger sister who was seven years was married in her place

I was eleven when we were woken up at around 6 a.m. by noises outside,” she said. “The previous day we had learned that my older sister was to be married to a 50-year-old man who had paid two cows as dowry