For Celine Njoki, a single mother of three children from Lower Kabete, the harrowing experience of being raped thrice in two years haunts her to date.
Njoki recently shared gory details of her ordeal with Switch TV. Indeed rape is real!
The single mother of three started experiencing fateful moments after her release from prison. People, including her family members, avoided her like plague.
"I had just come out of prison where I had been judged for buying a second-hand phone. I was released; nobody wanted to live with me," she narrated.
Left with no choice, she left for the streets of Nairobi which was her home until the rape incident.
"My first gang rape was two years ago. I was stigmatised and my children were traumatised too and I started sleeping on the streets, doing casual jobs. I was gang-raped by about 12 men on the streets of Nairobi," she bitterly recalled.
She was thereafter taken to Kenyatta National Hospital by good samaritans, had three operations done on her before undergoing numerous counseling sessions. But her dream to see her children make it in life got her back once again.
Njoki refocused on raising her three children. However, as fate would have it, she was gang-raped once again.
"When I thought I was healed, last year 2017- by then I had a house in Lower Kabete I had started working - in December on my way home, just about to my house, I met six guys, they said hi, and I said hi too, I thought they knew me. After that they told me 'madam simama, ukijaribu kupita hapo tutakuua,' one of them had a big gun. They told me 'twende hivi' and then they took me to a dried river because it was not raining, tore my clothes, gang-raped me, sodomised me and put sticks in me. I lost conscious at around 9:30 pm and when I came back it was around 12 midnight," narrated Njoki."
"When I was recovering again, and I had moved away from the place to a new house but still in Lower Kabete because my son is in class 8 and I could not just leave. On April 27th 2018, in the middle of the night, it was raining so hard and I just heard people in the house, they took me from my bedroom up to the sitting room, raped me, broke my glasses and they cut me up, my thighs are full of scars, they strangled me, sodomised me, put a rolling pin inside me and then they left at around 2am,” Njoki recounted.
Patricia Kagendo Njeru, a therapist noted that for rape victims, they need to have a forgiving heart so that they can heal and move on with life.
Here is the video: https://youtu.be/Ai9dPgrcFpY?t=2347, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai9dPgrcFpY