Law and Development Association (LADA) in collaboration with Chirundu police at the weekend retrieved a fifteen year old girl of Sikoongo Chiefdom in Siavonga District from a marriage.
Confirming the development to ZANIS in Siavonga yesterday, LADA Executive Director Charles Dinda said his association in partnership with Chirundu police Victim Support Unit (V.S.U.) stormed the house where the girl had been forced into an early marriage by her parents and retrieved her.
Mr Dinda said the named girl, a grade nine pupil was married off to a man aged 20 from the same village.
He said apart from retrieving the girl from the matrimonial home, police also managed to pick up the named man and detained him in police custody at Chirundu police station where he was charged him with defilement.
And the named girl confirmed to ZANIS in an interview that she had been retrieved from her marriage of three days. She disclosed that she was taken out of the house by police and LADA officials who later took her to Mtendere Mission Hospital were she was made to undergo thorough medical examinations.
She thanked LADA and police for coming to her rescue and promised not to get married until she completes her education.
Meanwhile, Mr Dinda has observed that there is need to empower children with basic knowledge on human rights and child abuse for them to protect themselves against evils of society.
He said it is against this background that his association has embarked on a project to train paralegal children in Southern province.
Mr Dinda stated that the five day training will help children to interpret basics on human rights as well as formation of paralegal kids clubs in their schools.
He said the paralegals will be referring cases from both the community and schools to the police so that the law can be applied.
Mr Dinda however cited resources as their major challenge and appealed to partners such as UNICEF and Save the Children Norway to come on board.
ZANIS
Well done
Some men have too much appetite to the extent of sleeping with small girls. 15yrs old pl…ze.
I hope this man will be put on trial and sentenced so that others should learn from him
WHAT A SHAME…
What kind of parents are these kanshi? God give us wisdom of caring for our children as they are the Leaders of tomorrow. I hope this girl has cont contracted and STIs or may be pregnant.
Even the parents are to blame. How dare you allow your child to leave school and get married. Some parents are not fit to be even called parents.
mmmhhhhhh serious isn’t it! what did they do with the parents who married off the child? plus I think what should actually happen is to educate the parents about the importance of education so that they don’t marry off their children at such an age, this in addition to educating children about their rights…… concentrating on educating the children about rights creates another problem where children stop respecting their parents or guardians, so a balance must be struck, in countries like SA parents cant discipline their children and so we have a breakdown of morals and thats not what we want
Good evening, or should I say good morning to those around the GMT.
There was article sometime back on LT on a wedding ceremony in Sinazongwe’s Namafulo area of an 18 year old son of a village headman marrying a 14 year old bride. Pictures were all splashed all over. My question is….. how different is it from this case? I know we have traditional, Christian and whatever type of marriage that is out there……I mean, I just can’t get it. Can anyone explain to me the pass/fail criteria? Provincial or tribal laws or what?:-?? Naine kuti naisa sumbulamo akamwaiche ka….ukulala golf kwachilamo:-?
Take action on those parents what is happening in this world? Thank you job well done i can donate money to this kind of work.
Virginity is already eaten. The girl has tasted high voltage also. Physically the girl is retrieved, phsycologically the girl is challenged, emotionally the girl is disturbed and sexually starved. She is heading back. LT follow this case a report on it after 2 weeks. You find that the girl is even left the village 2getha with the man to unknown place.
Let the girl be done in all the bed 469 positions.
I attended the hand over ceremony of the girl to this man. The mother even said that she got married to her her father when she was 13 years and by that time the father was only 15 years. It is a familly disease. Let it go on from generation to generations
let them reduce the legal age of marriage to 10 years! abaiche they are growing laka too fast these days. worse pa uk. nalimu club other day, ichi mwaiche chimusngu approached me. she sat pama laps pandi, next thing chile shana pama laps pandi. elo chi tunker chandi chalinde nomba! nshakwete impiya ya taxi but at that moment my friends the money appeared! took her pa bondi, ama kiss one two,. chawiysa chalanda ati no condom please. ine nati best! kiss kiss kiss, next phone call, she picked up, and she said her mother was looking for her,so ine ati how old are you? cha wumfwa nsoni, ati 16! ine ati iye tatalesa mayo! i was really annoyed! buti chalikwete tako bada kind bane. mmm, she still calls me. but am wating atleast next year kuti nachilya
Fifteen years is not that bad.Umwine if she is feeling that nasumuka enough to handle all the pressures,leasures and down turns involved in marriage then she should be left alone.Ati insansa ni wemwine:-?
********* is already eaten. The girl has tasted high voltage also. Physically the girl is retrieved, phsycologically the girl is challenged, emotionally the girl is disturbed and ***ually starved. She is heading back. LT follow this case a report on it after 2 weeks. You find that the girl is even left the village 2getha with the man to unknown place.
Let the girl be done in all the bed 469 positions.
# 9 ulichipuba ichapesha amano
ninshi sphincter tembo?
Poverty is what drives such poor parents to sell off their under aged daughters to marraige just to get their hands on that 50,000 PINI – 1000 000 ZMK. Such parents must be punished by law and LOBOLA culture must be BANNED:o