A 17-year-old student of Strait Secondary School in Nairobi, Kenya, has accused her teachers and principal of torturing her with fire for being a pagan and to force a confession. According to the teenager, on the 17th of March last week, she was summoned to the school’s staff room by the teachers who initially asked the whereabouts of another female student named Elizabeth. When she could not provide that information, she was beaten and threatened with a worse punishment. “…The teacher told me if I did not confess about my relationship with Elizabeth [the missing student] I would not like what would follow,” she told Kenyan media Standard Digital. The young girl, whose identity remains undisclosed for security reasons, maintained she was no friend to the missing student.
What followed was unbelievable, her hands and legs were tied by two teachers who reportedly gathered plastic bags, poured kerosene on them, set them on fire, and used them as a torture device on the student, in a bid “to force demons” out of her. Demons of lies, perhaps. Her pleas for them to stop fell on deaf ears, as they continued beating her, forcing her to confess that she was a Satanist. According to the teenager, all of this happened in the presence of the principal, yet the said principal, Joyce Syokau, has denied any involvement, claiming that she was absent at the time of the happening. However, Syokau did claim that the student finally confessed to being a Satanist. “The teachers said that they even prayed and she fell down so they believed she was possessed,” she told the media.