Director of Heritage Children Resource Centre Teresiah Kimiti has advised parents from Mavoko sub-county to be taking and picking their children from school to prevent being kidnapped by child molesters.
Kimiti said that cases of child kidnap was increasingly high in the region posing threat to school going children in the area.
"Cases of child molestation and kidnap have overwhelmingly increased in Mavoko sub-county hence need for parents to be careful with their children's movements more so between home and school," claimed Kimiti.
According to Kimiti, most children had been reportedly disappeared while either on their way to or from school making it hard for their parents to trace them.
She said that the situation was worsening given that Machakos County lies at the borders of other countries such as Tanzania hence at times posing difficulties in tracing the children whenever they disappeared.
The director who addressed the press at the centre on Saturday, also called on teachers from the region, especially from private schools to be more careful and observant with children movements whenever they were in school.
Miriti warned the area teachers against encouraging individuals who had no relations to the children to visit or pick them from schools after being dropped by their parents or caretakers.
She told teachers to be strict and take details of all children and their relatives who are to be allowed to handle them while in school for their on security to help contain the situation.