This archive report was first published on 26 September 2019.
Published on September 26, 2019, a disturbing incident occurred at St. Mary's Junior Seminary Secondary School in Kwale, where a Form 3 student was brutally beaten by his colleagues.
The student, who was accused of stealing a phone, was subjected to a six-hour ordeal, with his attackers using canes and belts to inflict severe injuries on his head, hands, legs, and back.
According to the student, he was tied up and forced to confess to the alleged theft, but when his attackers failed to extract a confession, they resorted to rubbing chili pepper on his wounds.
'One of them came and called me from the dorm where I was resting because evening classes were over. He then asked me to follow him only to realise there were other boys waiting for me. They started asking me to give back their phone and then beat me one after the other,' the student recounted.
It was only when a Form 4 student intervened that the student was rescued and taken to a hospital, where his mother was shocked to see him in a blood-stained shirt.
The school administration suspended the 12 students involved in the attack, and three of them were arrested to assist with the investigations.
