Kenyan teacher gets 28 years

A court in Kenya has sentenced a school teacher to twenty-eight years in prison after he was found guilty of sexually abusing seven of his pupils.

The teacher, Francisco Ngumi Wachira, was found to have assaulted the seven young girls, aged between eight and ten, and all of whom were mentally handicapped, at the school in the Othaya district of Kenya.

He was was also ordered to receive eight strokes of the cane and ordered to serve hard labour.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service