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    "id": 1049895,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support this Statement by Sen. Were. I thank her for bringing this issue to the Floor of the House. I also want to thank Madam Ruto for playing a very important role in ensuring that that culprit was brought to book. Article 53 of the Constitution stipulates the right to children‟s protection. However, vulnerable children will at times run to any home where they imagine that they might get refuge, more specifically, children from very poor families. This case of Bomet County was a very serious case because in most cases you will find that our people may not even be able to authenticate people who set up such homes. They just look at the colour of their skin and imagine that such people cannot be criminals. That is what happened to the children who went to that children‟s home. Those were criminals and the children there were molested. That is not the only area where this happens. I am a member of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and we have been dealing with many children‟s home where there have been many problems. Children are taken to those homes and we find that for some of them, if they are not sexually molested, they sleep on the floor, they are underfed and eventually those children suffer a lot of damage. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am happy that the long arm of the law did not spare that particular white man despite the fact that he was able to escape Kenya. This will go a long way to serve as an example to the rest. I hope that the Committee that shall take up this particular Statement will investigate this matter thoroughly so that we save our children from such conditions."
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