This archive report was first published on 24 September 2019.
On September 24, 2019, a Form Three student from St. Mary's Junior Seminary Secondary School in Kwale was hospitalized after being brutally beaten by his colleagues.
The student, who was suspected of stealing a phone, was tortured for almost six hours, with his hands tied behind his back as his attackers tried to extract a confession.
According to the student, the beating was carried out using canes and belts, and he suffered severe injuries to his head, hands, legs, and back.
When the attackers realized that the student was not providing the information they wanted, they took pilipili and rubbed it on the wounds they had inflicted.
A Form Four student who was passing by intervened and rescued the Form Three student, reporting the incident to the boarding master.
The student was instructed to go to the hospital, but his mother was called to the school and expressed shock when she found him in a blood-stained shirt.
She questioned why the boarding master had told her son to go to the hospital by himself and took him to the hospital before reporting the matter to the police.
The students involved in the incident have allegedly been suspended from the school, but the school principal, Robert Omondi, was not reachable for comment.
