Teen's rape, grass-cutting punishment, galvanizes support in Kenya for an 'invisible crime'
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The case of a 16-year-old girl now confined to a wheelchair is helping shine a light on what activists say is a largely hidden crime in Kenya: rape.
The teenager was gang-raped and thrown into a pit latrine in western Kenyan in June. The attackers' light punishment has fueled a wave of anger here. Administrative police made the suspects cut grass at a police post and then let them go.
A wave of publicity has built over the last couple weeks and Kenya's political heavyweights are also speaking up in support of the victim.
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Lydia Muthiani, deputy executive director of the Coalition on Violence Against Women, says rape is an "invisible crime" in Kenya because police and prosecutors rarely investigate.