A Kawambwa district based Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) has expressed worry at the high number of defilement cases and early marriages being recorded in the area.
Youth Development Association (YDA) Director, Mathews Lukupwa says his organisation has handled several cases of girls as young as 12 years old being molested and getting pregnant.
Mr Lukupwa said what is more worrying is that some parents have turned the problem into a source of livelihood and are shielding the perpetrators of the vice in exchange for a bribe.
He said this during a Kawambwa District HIV/AIDS Task Force (DATF) meeting held in the Council Chambers yesterday.
Mr Lukupwa said parents are charging the defilers between K 5,000 and K 10,000 for them not to take the matter to the
Police.
He complained that parents in most cases only report issues of defilement to relevant authorities after failing to secure payments from the person responsible.
Mr Lukupwa strongly appealed to members of the community to report parents who are in a habit of receiving bribes from men who defile their children.
And the Victim Support Unit (VSU) at Kawambwa Police Station has warned of stern action on any guardian who will be found making a livelihood out of the defilement of a child.
Subeta Mooba a police officer under VSU at Kawambwa says it is an offence for any person not to report a crime to the Police, adding that any person who will be found wanting will be treated as an accomplice and will be prosecuted together with the defiler.
Ms Mooba said girls who are defiled undergo serious mental and physical trauma that require them to undergo specialized treatment, adding that this can only be done if the matter is reported to relevant authorities.
She said parents engaged in receiving bribes put the lives of their children at risk because perpetrators of the vice will take advantage and lead to higher number of cases of defilement.
She said defilement also exposes girls to sexually transmitted infections such as HIV and also lead to unplanned and early pregnancies which she noted lives the victims emotionally disturbed for life.
In other countries such parents would be jailed together with the defiler once it is proven that they took a bride.
Disgusting!
Repulsive
Thanks
will this scourge come to an end, ever?
From time immemorial, our forefathers had these predicaments and they were dealt on their own merits, not globally the way the westerners push us to punish the culprits as per sets of their culture.
-In Zambian culture and African traditions at large,it is excusable if A man defile a matured girl in an unison accord,for the sake forcing her Parents to let go, in their resistance to the couple union, on flimsy reason.
– Teenagers in a moment of passion, as mutually and willing parties indulge in sex and the girl bear the sign of the amorous encounter, our parents used to let the old ladies conduct the investigations, to really know if the act was a mutually consented, today we us the Police, whom intimidate willingly or unwillingly the girl to protect herself trough lie.
@2.1 Kamalondo just go back to where you came from. Why do you want to take us backwards to a time when people did not understand the psychological and physical effects of defilement on a young girl and women’s positions were only for the benefit of men? Poverty can never be conquered when people like you push forward this way of thinking.
Kamalondo, please spare us the nonsense! It is really a pity there are still people who think this way. I wonder what generation you are. Shame on you!
This is disgusting. These defilers are animals and should be treated as such.
What poverty can do.Smh
A critical analysis of the whole issue of defilement will reveal that poverty has a hand in the escalation of cases of defilement. One thing that hasn’t been mentioned in the article is that some parents set traps for people with potential to compensate them handsomely for defiling their daughters. In some areas, young girls go after older men who they feel can give them gifts and money. So as long as these issues continue to be swept under the carpet, the scourge cannot be defeated conclusively.
In the picture, I can see babies carrying babies
They were paraded by the reporter to try to make his/her case against defilement. Truth is, these girls are helping their mothers take care of siblings.
some parents…anyway poverty ni so chabe…the only way to get rid of temptation for them pa last its to give in to it…poverty temunobe
@ Sata’s Wisdom
Was your comment meant to be a joke?
Insala
What I personally see in this whole issue is ignorance on the part of these tuma fake NGOs about life in the village.The dark and lonely village night is made alight by the singing and dancing of boys and girls playing together at night. By the rules of the village, by the age of 13, a girl or boy is supposed to have a girl/boy-friend or have sex with cousins. It’s rare for a child to remain a virgin until the age of fifteen. Actually, girls as young as 10 are encouraged by their peers and even mothers to have sex. Because there is so much pressure all around to have sex since sex is a game, these children learn sex from their fellow children. By the age of 14 or 15 and especially for girls, they are ready to graduate to older and stronger partners.
LOL
There is this village children’s game called ‘select’ which involves a boy selecting a girl of his choice and vice versa and the two of them walking hand in hand for a distance of about fifty metres deep in the dark. What happens is that girls and boys separate themselves. They then stand in lines of boys and girls alone. Once this is done, a boy goes to the girls’ line to choose a girl of his choice and the two walk hand in hand until they reach the boys’ line. Then the girl goes back. Then it was the turn of one of the girls to go to the boys’ line to pick a boy of her choice.
There is this other game involving a mockery family where children separate themselves as husband, wife and children. The game involves all activities children believe their parents do and sex usually results…
kikikikikikikikikikikikikikiki
The game involves all activities children believe their parents do and sex usually results with or without arousal of the two. Are they just children’s games? Sorry no! There are cases were children graduate into lovers as they grow. Other children usually find better partners as they grow. More on this later.
Please. Don’t bother to write any more later. thank you.
Poverty is the greatest sin of them all,one wonders what kind of parent does that.
What are you guys talking about? My Wife is 40 years younger than me. Mary had Jesus at 12 years old. So whats your problem?
kikikikikikikikikikiki …lolest aa Banda
Some are even Preganant on the fotos
mwanisekesa imwe mwe bantu .. kikikikikikikikikikikiki
@kamalando,hop one of your children gets defiled one day…then comeback to post a nonsense comment like that again
@kamalando,hop one of your children gets defiled one day…then comeback to post a nonsense comment like that again(your parthetic)
@sata’s wisdom your seriously from the compound what kind of games are those you used to play?lol
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