Honestly, I almost threw up when I read this latest update from International Teams:

A pick-up truck pulled up on the Matumaini property in Molo, Kenya. With a limited explanation, government workers backed up the vehicle to one of the main buildings, opened the rear door, and out stumbled a little girl falling headlong onto the dirt. Stunned, ITeams missionary Anthony tried to find out what was going on, only to be handed a document just before the workers climbed back into the truck and drove off. The body lying in the dust was little Rose.

The paper given to Anthony was a brief dossier that indicated Rose had spend 5 years in prison. Apparently she was now 14 years old. In the section titled "Conviction" it simply said "No Parents." This was a common fate of many children born with mental disabilities. Their parents simply had no support system or understanding of how to cope with such disabilities.

In due course, Anthony learned that, at age 9, little Rose had been dropped into a mixed male and female prison ward and had been horrible abused week after week for 5 years. The staff at Matumaini worked with little Rose over a long time to help her begin to barely talk, feed herself, learn basic personal hygiene, and even smile. The little girl who cowered in a corner, so deeply damaged and unable to trust, was beginning to gain "Matumaini, which is Kiswahili means "new hope."

This furthered by conviction even more that I hope to be able to minister with Kelvin Mwikya this summer. Dan and I met with Kelvin last summer, and he runs one of the major (possibly only) prison ministries and rehab centers in Kenya. I feel ecstatic for Rose to be delivered from that torture, but now many more are lost in that system?