Justice for Liz
Outraged Kenyans are demanding justice for a 16 year old gang-rape victim who was dumped in a sewage ditch, and left for dead. She was walking home from her grandfather's funeral in Busia when the attack occurred.
After the alleged rape by six men, she was buried in a 20-foot latrine. Neighbours heard her cries for help hours later and pulled her out, bloody and by then unconscious, according to Kenya's Daily Nation, which broke the story.
She identified three of her attackers, and neighbours hauled them off to the local police station.
Police ordered the suspects to cut grass in the yard, then released them shortly after, according to the newspaper, which is spearheading a fund-raiser to help meet the medical bills for the teen, who's been nicknamed Liz.
Word of the attack, which occurred weeks ago, got out this month leading to an outcry on social media, with Kenyans expressing their dismay using the hashtags #JusticeforLiz and #StandwithLiz. They demanded the arrest of the suspects and the officers who ordered them to cut grass.
"This is yet another example of blatant impunity and repeated non-compliance by the police and other government authorities. Rape and other gender crimes have consistently been treated as lesser crimes - this is unacceptable," Kenya's Coalition on Violence Against Women said in a statement.
The girl has had to use a wheelchair since the attack, according to the Daily Nation newspaper. She's also suffering from a condition that makes her unable to control her bowels as a result of the rape.
The global campaigning network Avaaz has launched an online petition demanding justice. It had more than 400,000 signatures by last weekend.
At least 32% of Kenyan girls younger than 18 experience some form of sexual violence, according to a report released last year by the government and the United Nations.
The numbers may be higher because a lot of rapes go unreported for fear of stigma.