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Teenager who had her first period during school lesson was reportedly branded ‘dirty’ and expelled from classroom A 14-year-old schoolgirl in Kenya took her own life after a teacher allegedly embarrassed her for having her period in class. The girl’s death has prompted protests from female parliamentarians and reignited a national conversation about “period shaming” and access to menstrual products. The girl’s mother said her daughter was found dead last Friday after she got her period during class and stained her clothes. Her teacher allegedly called her “dirty” and expelled her from the classroom in Kabiangek, west of Nairobi. It was the girl’s first period, her mother told local media, and she did not have a sanitary pad. The incident has cast a spotlight on a 2017 law requiring Kenya’s government to distribute free sanitary pads to all schoolgirls.  Poor implementation of the law is the subject of a parliamentary investigation. On Wednesday, female MPs “laid siege” to the educa...

A mother lured two teenage boys half her age to her home and had sex with one of them despite the victim telling her he was still at school, a court heard.  Teah Vincent, 32, enticed the two 14-year-olds back to her home in Woolaston, Gloucestershire, by offering them a glass of water after she saw them playing football. She took one of the boys up to her bedroom and then initiated sex with him, a jury at Gloucester Crown Court was told yesterday.   Mother-of-three Vincent, who has three children of primary school age, admits having sex with the boy on October 21 2018 but maintains she believed he was over 16 at the time. Prosecutor Christopher Smyth told the jury that Vincent offered the boys a glass of water back at her home around 5pm after they spent the afternoon playing football at Woolaston Memorial Hall near her home. He said: 'The boys took up Ms Vincent's offer and went back to her home. One of the boys knew Vincent but the alleged victim didn't. 'They sat dow...