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    "id": 460147,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Musyoka",
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        "legal_name": "Susan Mbinya Musyoka",
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    "content": "looked at her and thought of all the other women who are disabled either physically or mentally, and who land in similar situations. Anybody who rapes disabled people and children should be condemned in the strongest terms. The punishment that should be meted out to perpetrators of such acts should be very severe. It pains me to see that many of such cases go unpunished. Where one gets punished, the punishment is so flimsy that it is like a joke. When cases of rape are reported, people do not take them serious. The victim is subjected to ridicule. She would even be told that it was her fault that she was raped. As leaders, we have to take this matter seriously. We have to take action. Otherwise, we will continue degrading women and children, and our levels of life will not be enviable. As I have said, the worst case scenario is to have a disabled person or a minor being raped. This happens every day in our communities. We have to stop it. We must have a situation where all the culprits are put to book and given severe punishment. As the hon. Member said, police stations are not friendly to raped women. It is not just the police stations but even hospitals. We need to train our staff to handle victims of rape properly because if time is wasted, the evidence gets lost. We need to do proper investigations on women and children who are raped. Specimens have to be collected and analysed properly, so that we can catch up with the culprits. Therefore, in supporting the Motion, I would like to say that we have to take action. We have to be strong about this because every day, a woman suffers. Every day, a child is violated. This is not good for our community. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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