Incident 4 The Missing Girls

It was on Thursday mid morning at around 10.25am. This was immediately after a short break and learners were expected to attend science lesson. Due to the harshness of their class teacher who was also their science teacher twenty pupils did not attend science lesson and therefore only twenty three learners were in the classroom ready to be taught. The other twenty hid behind the classroom and others in the latrine.

This was the day I was expecting to be assessed for the second time because we had already communicated by the assessor that morning and even gave her direction to my school. I was expecting her to be in the classroom for assessment in the same class. When the teacher realized that some of the learners were not in the classroom she decided to report the matter to the deputy headteacher who also reported the same matter to the headteacher. The headteacher did not take his time to know what could be the root cause of the misconduct instead ordered boys from standard seven and eight to go and look for the standard three pupils who hid within the school compound. They were assumed to be within the school compound because the school is fenced and has lockable gate and a gate keeper, later on the learners were found in the latrines except two girls who were missing for the whole day.

On Friday very early in the morning the parents of the two girls came in tears (sic) asking for their beloved daughters, None of the teachers could explain the where-about of the girls. The Headteacher asked the teachers on duty to assemble learners in the assembly ground so that he could make an announcement concerning the two girls. During the announcement one of the boys raised up his hand and informed the headteacher that the previous evening he saw the two girls in one of the herdmen house and he expected that they slept there.

In addition the boy declared (sic) to the Headteacher infront of the two parents that the herdman had been luring school girls using money and therefore he had a chain of girl friends from our school. Above all, the herdman had been sickly and some weeks ago he was diagnosed H.I.V. positive. When the two parents heard that, one of them fainted and the other jumped on the headteacher in front of his office (sic). The situation was unbearable teachers tried to bring calm but it was in vain. The parent who fainted later recovered and went with the other parent and the deputy headteacher and two other teachers to where the girls were. Then girls were found still sleeping. To them it was not a big deal; one of the them declared to the deputy headteacher that even her parents knew she was befriending the guy (herdman). And many are the occasions she has ever taken shopping to the mother from the guy.

The long story ended in the police station whereby the herdsman was jailed because of child abuse. The girls were  later transferred to another school.
P.S.
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