This archive report was first published on 26 November 2019.
On February 10, 2018, Kenyan musician Wendy Kemunto's birthday turned into a nightmare when she was gang-raped by former Kenya Harlequin rugby players Frank Wanyama and Alex Olaba Mahaga at Seefar Apartments in Nairobi's Highrise estate.
Wendy, who had trusted one of her attackers from their university days, recounted the ordeal in an interview on Unscripted with Grace, saying she slipped in and out of consciousness during the incident that lasted a whole night.
'It was my birthday, 10 February. The plan was to go out with my friends, have a good time then go back home. But unfortunately, things didn’t turn out the way I had planned so I ended up spending the night at a friend’s house. This is someone I knew, this is someone I trusted and when we got to the house, unfortunately, things took a turn for the worst and I was assaulted and abused that night,' she said.
Wendy also revealed that she felt helpless and lay there waiting and hoping for the nightmare to end, and that she contemplated suicide in the aftermath of the sexual abuse, and weeks later when she realised she was pregnant.
'I bought a lot of pills, I know my family doesn’t know this but I really wanted to end my life at that point,' she said.
However, Wendy accepted the pregnancy and was ready to live for her unborn child, but tragedy struck when she suffered an unexpected miscarriage around the fifth month of the pregnancy.
Wendy would later go public about her ordeal, leading to the arrests of the rapists and subsequent sentencing to 15 years in jail.
