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    "id": 1341665,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Githunguri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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    "content": "my county, Kiambu, when I was representing Kiambu as the County Woman MP. A child was molested in the police cells in Gatundu Police Station back in 2019. The child was molested by a police officer who was manning the police station. He took advantage of a minor who was in the cells. To date, that case has never been concluded. Do you know why? Because tracking of sexual violation evidence in this country has become a mountain. You can easily go to court, press charges against a defiler, but you will not be able to produce evidence because we do not have clear systems of securing evidence, what we call the forensic evidence provisions. In other countries like the United States of America (USA), you will find that they have a very clear system on how to preserve evidence. The inner-wear of a child who is sexually molested… The Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) from that kind of an inner-wear is safely secured for seven years. In this country, files are presented in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), but there is no evidence because we have no systems of securing such evidence. In my previous term as a Member of Parliament representing Kiambu County, I brought forth a Bill that sought to address the issue of sexual assault forensic evidence. Unfortunately, I have never managed to complete the Bill. How I hope that during the life of this Parliament I will manage to complete it. That notwithstanding, I am very excited that within this whole combination of statute laws, we have found it worth to align the Sexual Offences Act, 2006 with the Constitution of Kenya so that we can allow the ODPP to prosecute the offenders, repeat offenders, and, if possible, blacklist the repeat offenders. With those very many submissions, I am humbled to support. Thank you."
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