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    "id": 1162208,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1162208/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Iman",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13177,
        "legal_name": "Falhada Dekow Iman",
        "slug": "falhada-dekow-iman"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise, pursuant to Standing Order No. 47(1) to make a Statement regarding the rampant but under-reported cases of minors suffering in the hands of domestic workers/house helps. Last week, there was the incident of young Andy Muiruri Kibe who died from internal injuries he sustained, allegedly from attacks by one Maureen Nyaboke who was the house help. The house help was later arrested and investigations of the incident are still on-going. In Mombasa, a 21-year-old woman who confessed to filming herself defiling a four-year-old boy and posting it online was sentenced to life in prison by Senior Resident Magistrate, Florence Macharia. The investigating officer of this particular case unearthed how child pornography syndicates collaborate with house helps to abuse children and film the paedophilic acts. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, early last year, a house help stabbed two minors after a disagreement with her employer who later sacked her. Instead of taking her marching orders kindly after the sack, she stealthily crept back to her employer’s residence in her absence and assaulted the same children, ostensibly to get back at their mother. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, tthese incidents should remind parents of the dangers their young ones are exposed to by the same people they have entrusted with giving care and security to them. The rate at which minors are being subjected to maltreatment by caregivers is quite alarming, to say the least. Sadly, these cases and many more remain unreported, yet they have impacted negatively on parents whose minors have fallen victim to such abuse as well as the victims who survive such ordeals. Such abuse often results in problems associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), with a significant increase in the risk of health problems such as heart disease, stroke or even diabetes as well as mental health problems"
}