Raped For a Year ,Impregnated By Brother- Girl Recounts Horrorific Life (VIDEO)

Herald KEApr 9, 2021Read original

A form 3 student currently residing in a rescue center has shocked Kenyans after narrating her horrific ordeal on how she was defiled for a whole year in a forest and impregnated. According to a report by a local daily on Friday ,9 April Blandina Kahunda, who is now 21 years old from Kilifi was defiled severally by his blood brother, impregnated and declared her an outcast in the family . Kahunda was defiled and impregnated by her stepbrother while she was 14 years old and in Class 6. She says she now regrets why she never shared the horrific incident with anyone on what she was going through in the hands of her stepbrother until she got pregnant.

“My brother forcibly defiled me for over one year but I never told anyone. I kept quiet because he threatened to kill me if I told anyone and he was also the one supporting me in my education and other basic needs."

Kahunda reveals that was born into a polygamous family. Her mother is the second wife of her father. She is the firstborn girl and the seventh of eight children, six boys and two girls. Her mother was a housewife and only depended on menial jobs to feed his children. She says his father did not support them despite being a blacksmith.

“My mother was the provider. Our father could make good sales out of the jembes, knives and pangas he makes, but our welfare was not his priority,”Kahunda recounted.

At the tender age of 11, together with her younger sister, Kahunda was forced to start selling local vegetables in the villages to support their mother’s income. By then she was in Class 3. Her stepbrother, a charcoal transporter, took advantage of the situation and offered to help her.

“One day I had been sent home from school due to school fees. He came to my mum and told her he would pay for my fees and all other items needed at school but I should not stay home .He gave me the money and I went to school. One day he sent me to take empty charcoal sacks to my uncle to fill. After a few days, he asked me to accompany him to see the progress.”She said .

When they reached the homestead where the charcoal was, it started raining heavily.

“I joined other girls at the homestead and when the rain subsided, he commanded that we go back home. I pleaded with him to allow me to have a chat with the girls but he became even mad. He asked me to get to his motorbike and he took a different direction,”Kahunda said.

As she wondered where they were heading to, her brother rode into the thick Arabuko Sokoke forest. Her questions on where they were heading to were not answered.

“He kept riding at a very high speed while making calls. He stopped somewhere in the forest and demanded to know the boys I have sekx with. At this moment I was shocked. I did not have any boy in my life. I tried to explain but he tied my hands, undressed me and defiled me. This was the beginning of my ordeal in the hands of my brother,” she said.

After crying in pain, her brother took her home. She braved the pain and kept it to herself. At some point, her mother noticed she was not okay but she denied it. Her brother even gave her family planning pills, which he forced her to take. The trend went like that until one day a relative almost caught them.

“He took me to his usual charcoal checking missions and took me to the forest. It was getting dark and I was fed up with his behaviour. He was undressing me when I slipped and ran away,"Kahunda said.

"He caught up with me and as he was dragging me to the forest, a man in a motorbike passed by. He stopped at a distance and came back. He told the rider that I was misbehaving and he was taking me home. The relative asked him not to use force. He took me home and reported to my mother that I was moving around with boys.”

By then she was five months pregnant but she had not noticed it. Her brother bought her a big school uniform to hide the bulging tummy.

She started skipping classes.

“My teacher sent a friend to come for me but I did not go to school. The following day other students were sent to take me to school and that they should not go back to school without me. I told the teacher what I was going through and the matter was reported to the chief. My family was summoned and they wanted to settle the matter as a family but the police took up the matter.”

Everyone turned against her and asked her to name the person responsible for the pregnancy. The family claimed he was framing the brother. Kahunda said there were plans by some of her sisters-in-law to have her terminate the pregnancy after an arrangement with a nurse but she declined. One of her sisters organized with another man to marry her since she was being mistreated at home.

"I was taken to another school where I schooled until I did my KCPE. After the exam, my brothers came for me and promised to take me to school but they did not. I could not stay at the rescue centre because I was 18 years old."

Kahunda's brother was found guilty and was convicted to 10 years in prison in 2018.

Her five-year-old son also lives in a children’s home in Kilifi.

When Kikambala Rescue Centre manager Linah Tsuma went to follow up on Kahunda at St Bakhita's, she discovered that her family had taken her home after her KCPE examination but she was not going to school. Kahunda had been referred from Kikambala to St Bakhita's. According to a report by a local publication, Kilifi child protection programmes officer William Mganga has secured a scholarship for her to go to school.