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    "id": 1150882,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1150882/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "But if we do not make a proviso, we will go through a lot of things I saw when I was representing children in the Cradle. A lot of children, especially the street ones will tell you that whenever they are in the justice system, the kind of punishments they would be given would be tied to ropes and hanged on rooftops and some of them would be stripped naked and beaten. So, I am suggesting that even when a child has done a mistake and is being punished under the justice system, the punishment must be humane, preserve the child’s dignity and be commensurate with the evolving capacity of the child. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I am sure you saw very recently one of the Members shared with me a video that was circulating of police officers interviewing an underage child who had been sexually abused and they showed us the face of that child. Those are the kind of things we are talking about here. Even if it was a child who had violated the law, we do not need to see its face. So, it should be humane and preserve the child’s dignity and be commensurate with the evolving capacity of the child so that a punishment given to a two-year old should not be the punishment given to a 17-year old."
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