Students decry sexual predators, societal negligence

“When we are at our boarding school, our parents are far away from us. This increases our vulnerability. Every time I watch a skit on defilement, I cry because a teacher did that to me when I was in primary school. We need to be protected from errant teachers,” she said.

One student (name withheld) from one of the secondary schools in Mpigi district made a number of guests shed tears as she explained how she was defiled by her teacher when she was in primary school.