A teenage girl in Mathare slums has been kicked out of her home by her mother and step father.
Brenda Namtos says her mother started mistreating her just immediately after she got a baby boy with her step father.
Namtos says before she got kicked out , her parents would lock her out of the house and let her spend the night out in the balcony.
“My mother and step father would even lock me up in the toilet and pour urine on me. I know my step father did this because he knew i had my own father but i do not understand why my mother did it,” says Namtos.
She told Ghetto Radio News that her stepfather even threatened to kill her if she got anywhere near her brother.
According to Namtos her efforts to to seek peace with her parents have not been fruitful.
“I went and knocked at my mother’s house but she just looked at me, shut the door and started laughing with my stepfather. She did not bother asking me why i had come back,” she adds.
The girl is currently staying at children’s home in Mathare and has been unable to go back to school due to lack of school fees.
AUTHOR: CLARET ADHIAMBO