Kangaroo courts initiated at village levels by community policing members colluding with chiefs and village headmen have been blamed for protecting sex pests.
Community activists, led by Edward Mauti and Ex-civic leader, Gwaro Makori, have decried cases of kangaroo courts denying sexually abused girls justice.
Speaking at a Kisii hotel during a one-day training for community activists in Kisii County organised by International Rescue Committee(IRC) under Peace Initiative Kenya(PIK) project, the duo said that several sexually abused girls and their parents suffered in silence following intimidations from the community policing members.
They accused community policing officers of colluding with the perpetrators of the vices to arm twist the victims' parents into out of court agreements brokered by the policing groups.
"There are a number of defilement cases going on unreported due to kangaroo courts initiated by community policing members at a fee with the knowledge of the local chiefs, who derail justice for the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) victims in this region," observed Mauti.
They challenged local communities to rise up and break their silence on GBV cases affecting women and girls, to assure the GBV survivors of their rights to justice.
Mauti,singled out cases involving male teachers in the region who sexually abuse their female learners and collude with local community policing members to intimidate the girls' parents to accept to settle the case out of court.