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Child Prostitution up After Kenya's Election Bloodshed

July 21, 2008

This time last year, Janet Kimani spent her days at school and her nights fighting with her little brothers over what to watch on the family's flickering TV set.

Now, she sleeps all day and sells her skinny, 14-year-old body at night for $3 an hour.

"There are so many of us girls on the streets these days," Janet, dressed in a black miniskirt and white blouse, told The Associated Press in Eldoret, a western Kenya town that was a flashpoint of this year's deadly postelection crisis

© 2008 Cable News Network

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/31/kenya.prostitution.ap/index.html


category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Christopher Gibbs on 4 August 2008
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