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In Kenya on Thursday, a group of six teachers were arrested and suspended after a video of primary school students being forced to simulate sexual acts sparked protests as punishment.
In the 29-second video that went viral, four boys in uniforms simulated sexual intercourse under a tree in the schoolyard as a teacher watched. In the background, six teachers can be heard chatting and laughing as a shirtless child wipes tears from his face.
Police said the “child molesting” video was filmed in the rural town of Nyamache, about 300 kilometers west of the capital, Nairobi.
Police said in a report seen by AFP that six teachers, five women and one man had been arrested and were “cooperating with the investigation”. They will be charged with the appropriate charges, he added.
The Teacher Services Commission (TSC) said the video caused “shame, trauma, and mental and psychological torture” in six students, and suspended six of them.
“You ordered and/or coerced your students into engaging in obscene/inappropriate homosexual acts within the school,” TSC official Evaleen Mitei said in a letter to teachers.
Teachers have three weeks to file an apology against the suspension, Mithei said.
At the same time, they are expected to be detained for another seven days until the investigation is completed.
The incident caused an uproar on social networks in a largely conservative country.
Education Minister Ezequiel Machogu said disciplinary proceedings had been initiated against the teacher and that he would be fired if found guilty.
Under Kenya’s sex offenses law, anyone convicted of coercing another to commit lewd acts can be sentenced to at least five years in prison.
Beyond this incident, the living conditions of schoolchildren in Kenya are regularly subject to heated debate, either over the adequacy of corporal punishment, which was officially outlawed in 2001, or more recently over the length of the school day. It is
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