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    "id": 821870,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nandi CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Tecla Tum",
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        "legal_name": "Tum Tecla Chebet",
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    "content": "and children have been sexually abused in the country. Last week, a woman was murdered by her husband in my ward. She was abused. We remember the incident at Moi Girls High School and many other cases. We know those men and women are rotting in their homes. There is no one to assist them after the abuse. They will be counselled and given psychological treatment at those trauma centres. In countries like the United States of America (USA), there are many centres which attend to women and men who have been abused. It is not a matter of going to hospital where it is done in one hour. As a social worker, I know that treatment of somebody who has been abused calls for a period of six months up to one year. There is need to develop post-trauma centres. I know some women who have been sexually abused. Some of them have said that they will not get married. It is not a joke. It is not a matter which can be addressed in one hour. It is a serious problem. Our boys have been sodomised and they need counselling. They need treatment. There are women who are rotting in their homes because they have been abused and have no one to share their agony with. They go back to their parents and the parents tell them to just go back to their houses. Those women cry day in, day out. They have no one to share with what they are going through. We need those centres. They should be established next week, if not tomorrow. Women in this country are sexually abused. Boys are sodomised. In our cultures, you do not share when you are abused. We have laws like the Sexual Offences Act of 2006 and the Protection Against Domestic Violence Act of 2015, but nothing is happening. I support this Motion. Thank you, Hon. Jessica, who introduced it. You will heal the women of Kenya who are crying in their homes. We need treatment, post-trauma counselling, healing and reconciliation. No other person can do this apart from social workers and psychologists. Doctors only treat when the victims have been abused or when they perform surgery, but they cannot treat their emotions or their hearts. They cannot treat everything. I support this Motion and call upon the honourable ladies in this House to support it. Our girls and women are crying in their homes and nobody has listened to them. Doctors cannot do what is required. I support the Motion 100 per cent."
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