I am hunkered down in a cyber cafe in Kahawa West, a suburb in Kiambu county, my eyes glued to the screen as I type away.
A boy, who in my estimation looks like a primary school kid, bursts into the cyber cafe.
He seats next to me.
I pay him no mind and continue with my typing work.
Consumed with my typing, I notice that from the corner of my eye that he appears restless and keeps looking at him.
I tilt my head to his screen only to be hit by unsettling pornographic images.
It hits me that the boy was busy watching x-rated content.
Realising that I have seen what he is watching, he quickly shifts the screen to another tab.
This was not my first experience watching a school-going kid consuming pornographic contend.
It was the fifth time having a glimpse of either a young boy or girl visiting a website where adult content is published.
I have had similar encounters in scores of other cyber cafes.
What has left me shocked is how cyber owners allow school going children to make use of their services without monitoring what they are doing.
They are basically turning a blind eye as the youngsters consume unfettered content that is meant for adults and that could damage them permanently psychologically.
Most of these videos show violence being meted out on women in sexual contexts and one shudders to think what exposure content of that nature could mean for young minds.
One is forced to ask are there gaps in our criminal justice system that cyber owners exploit to allow children to make use of their services?
Or is it merely a question of poor implementation of laws?
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