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    "id": 1097896,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1097896/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chebeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13187,
        "legal_name": "Mercy Chebeni",
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    "content": "Further, Article 53 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 provides for the protection of children from abuse, neglect, harmful cultural practices, all forms of violence, inhumane treatment and punishment and hazardous or exploitative labour. The Constitution of Kenya also protects the rights of children to education, nutrition, shelter, health and parental care. Furthermore, the Children’s Act of 2001 articulates the child’s right to protection from abuse, harmful cultural practices and sexual exploitation, among others. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the first Violence Against Children Survey was carried in 2001 and it found out that 76 per cent of females and 80 per cent of males aged between 18 and 24 had experienced violence at least once in their childhood indicating high level of childhood violence in the country. The second survey carried out in 2009 found out that nearly half of the females; 45.9 per cent and more than half of the males 56.1 per cent, experienced childhood violence in Kenya. Among the 15.6 per cent of females who experienced childhood sexual violence, nearly two-thirds, 62.6 per cent experienced multiple incidences before age of 16. Physical violence is the most common type of violence experienced in childhood in Kenya. Nearly two out of five females, 38.8 per cent and half of males, 51.9 per cent experienced childhood physical violence by parents, caregivers and other relatives affecting nearly three in 10 females and two in five males in the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the consequences of child abuse in Kenya is often very devastating causing negative effects of things to do with physical health, social mobility, success of the child and mental health---"
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