Mai Mahiu’s ‘madams’ has been revealed due to the secret filming of BBC Africa

BBC Africa an eye investigation shows how women, known as “Madams”, have participated in 13 -year -old young children in Kenya’s prostitution business.

Mai Mahiu in Kenya’s Rift Valley Transit Transit Transport, Truck and Lauries Day and Lawyers on the streets and people from all over the country to Yuganda, Ravanda, South Sudan and Democratic Republic Kongo.

Only K Cm in the east of the capital Nairobi. (Miles 3 miles) It is known for the transport hub prostitute business, but it is also a breeding field for the child’s sexual abuse.

A few months ago in the early years of this year, two detective investigators spent a few months ago to infiltrate the city, want to learn how to be Madam as a sex worker.

Two different women have been exposed in their secret filming, which are called illegal and then identify the investigators with minors in the sexual industry.

The BBC gave all its evidence to Kenya police in March. The BBC believes that since then Madames have moved the place. Police said that we were not discovered by the women and young girls that we were depicted. There has been no arrest till date.

Kenya is convinced. Police need testimony from the children for successful cases. Often insecure minors are afraid to testify.

In the BBC footwear, the grain footage depicted on the street showed a woman, who says herself, saying, “They are still children, so it is easy to handle them by just giving sweets.”

“Prostitution is a cash crop in Mai Mahiyu; the truck is basically fuel. And this is what we benefit. It has been normalized in Mai Mahi,” she explained that she had a 13 -year -old daughter, who had already “worked” for six months.

“When you deal with minors, it was very dangerous. You couldn’t just bring them out in the city only. I only sneak them out of privacy at night,” said Nimura.

The adult who consent is not clearly criminally committed by Kenya’s national law, but many municipalities have been banned by stomach-cases. It is not banned in Mai Mahiyu, part of the Nakuru County.

It is illegal to live out of a prostitution business under the Penal Code, to make a profit from the prostitution business as either sex workers or the third party.

Under the age of 18, minor children have been sentenced to life for life for 10 years.

Asked if customers asked if they wear condoms, Nimura said that she usually made sure that they had protection but not strange.

“Some children want to make more money (so don’t use them). Some are forced (do not want to use),” she said.

At the second meeting, she took the detective to the house to one house where three young girls were trapped on one sofa, the other on a hard-back chair.

He then left the room and gave the investigators a chance to talk to the girls alone.

They described that they were frequently abused for sexuality every day.

“Sometimes you have sex with multiple people. The clients force you to do unimaginable things,” a girl said.

Children, who is forced to work in Kenya’s sexual industry, has no recent statistics about the number of children. In 2012, Country of US Foreign Affairs about Human Rights in Kenya According to the Kenyan government, the statistics received from the Kenya government, the eradication of a child prostitution business in Kenya, according to 000 5,3.

Other studies are focusing on a specific area, especially on the coast of the country – known for tourist resorts. 2022 reports About 1,500 children were forced into sexual work in the Killfi and Qual County to end modern slavery for the NGO Global Fund.

Another detective investigator gained the trust of a woman who called herself Cheptu and had multiple meetings with her.

She said that the sale of young girls is that she can be “life and comfortable”.

She said, “You have done this kind of business in a big way because it is illegal,” she said.

“If anyone said that they want a young girl, I ask them to pay me. We also have our regulators who always come back to them.”

Cheptu took the detective to the club to meet her four daughters. The youngest said she was 13 years old. Others said he was 15 years old.

She opened the profits from them and distributed the girls for each 3,000 Kenya Shilling ($ 23; £ 17), her share was 1,500 Shilling ($ 5; +;).

At the second meeting, a house in Mai Mahiyu, Chepu left the detective investigators with two minor girls.

One of them told her that she had an average relationship with five men a day.

When she asked what happened if she refuses to have sex without a condom, she said she had no choice.

“I (I have to have sex without a condom) will be pursued, and I have nowhere to run. I’m an orphan.”

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Kenya’s sexual industry is a complex, confusing world where both men and women are involved in the child prostitution business.

Mai Mahiyu does not know how many children are forced into sexual work, but it is easy to find them in this small town of 000 5 people.

A former sexual sexuality known as “Baby Girl” now provides shelter in Mai Maho for girls who have escaped sexual abuse.

The 61-year-old boy worked in the sexual industry for 40 years-first discovered herself on the road in the early twentieth decade. She was pregnant due to domestic violence, and after her husband fled due to domestic violence, her three young children were with her.

In a bright parlor in front of her house, on a wooden kitchen table, she introduced the BBC to four young women who forced Madames to do sexual work in Mai Mahi when they were all children.

Every girl shared similar stories of a broken family or at home – they came to Mai Mahiu to escape, just to commit violent torture again.

Mitchell described how she lost her parents from HIV and was pulled out of the street where she met a man who gave her somewhere to survive and began sexual abuse.

She said, “I literally had to pay for education. I reached my limit, but I had no one,” she said.

Two years later, a woman contacted her who became a Madam in Mai Mahu and forced her to sexual work.

Lillian, who is now 19, lost her parents at a very young age. She was left to a uncle who painted her in the shower and sold the image to his friends. Voyurism soon changed to rape.

“He was my worst day. At that time I was 12 years old.”

When she escapes, she was raped again who took her to Mai Maho. This is where Michelle contacted a woman who forced her to sexual function.

The small life of these young women has increased due to violence, neglect and abuse.

Now, the baby is kept by the girl, they are learning new skills – in two photography studios and in two beauty salons.

They help the baby girl to reach her in the community.

Kenya has the highest rate of HIV infection in Nakur County, and the US Aid Agency is intended to educate people about an insecure sex risk supported by the USAID.

Her office is, near Naiwasha Lake, at Karagita Community Health Center, where she provides condoms and advice.

However, with the decision to pull the USAID funds by US President Donald Trump, her reach of reach will stop.

“We will be unemployed since September,” she told the BBC World Service and how much she worry about the young women and girls dependent on her.

“See how insecure these kids are. How will they live by themselves? They are still healing.”

The US government did not respond to the comments in the investigation about the possible impact of the deduction of the funds. USAID was officially closed last month.

For now, Lilian is focusing on learning photography and recovering from abuse.

She said, “I no longer fear, because the baby girl is for me,” she said. “She is helping us to bury the past.”