Fifteen-year-old Isatu Kamara got pregnant in circumstances so bizarre she has to explain the story several times.
The teenager attended a Catholic school in the coastal fishing town of Tombo, about an hour’s drive from Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown. Her teacher - a priest - would divide the girls in the class between the ‘Virgin Marys’ and the others. If the girls were honest, he said, they’d be rewarded with small gifts – food packages which were desperately needed by the students, many of whom lived on just one meal a day.
