{"id":204734,"date":"2025-08-15T04:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-statement-from-bbc-news-regarding-bbc-africa-eye-investigations-madams-exposing-kenyas-child-sex-trade\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:13:59","slug":"kenya-statement-from-bbc-news-regarding-bbc-africa-eye-investigations-madams-exposing-kenyas-child-sex-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-statement-from-bbc-news-regarding-bbc-africa-eye-investigations-madams-exposing-kenyas-child-sex-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Statement From BBC News Regarding BBC Africa Eye Investigations: &#8216;Madams: Exposing Kenya&#8217;s Child Sex Trade&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">\u201cBBC Africa Eye\u2019s investigation \u2018Madams: Exposing Kenya\u2019s Child Sex Trade\u2019 is an important piece of public interest journalism that documents the exploitation of children in the Kenyan sex trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">\u201cWe note with concern that following the broadcast of the film, survivors of childhood sexual abuse who contributed to the film were interviewed at length by investigators from the Kenya Directorate of Criminal Investigations without the presence of legal representation. There has also been a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508140476.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBBC Africa Eye\u2019s investigation \u2018Madams: Exposing Kenya\u2019s Child Sex Trade\u2019 is an important piece of public interest journalism that documents the exploitation of children in the Kenyan sex trade. \u201cWe note with concern that following the broadcast of the film, survivors of childhood sexual abuse who contributed to the film were interviewed at length by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":204735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,19370,8438,11055,9381,20712,4688,430,6097,52112,257,6711,254,6065,5979],"class_list":["post-204734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bbc","tag-child","tag-exposing","tag-eye","tag-investigations","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-madams","tag-news","tag-sex","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statement","tag-trade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}