Police in Chilubi district in Northern Province have detained a 75 year old woman for having sex with a 15 year old boy.
Blandina Chama of Malabi village in chief Chiwanangala’s area is alleged to have had carnal knowledge of the boy last week.
Chama, who is a widow, is said to have dragged the boy to a nearby bush where she forced herself on him.
The alleged victim is said to have reported the incident to his mother who later reported the matter to police.
Chama has since been detained at Matipa police post on Chilubi mainland.
Meanwhile, A 10 year old girl of Isangano village in chief shimumbi area of Luwingu district of the Northern Province has been married off by her desperate parents for immediate economic gain.
Luwingu District Gender Chairperson Agnes Chomba confirmed to Zambia news and information services in an interview today that a 10 year and 9 month old girl was married off after she was withdrawn from the nearby school.
She expressed deep disappointment with the parents for marrying off their daughter who was below the age of 16 years to an over aged man of the same area.
Mrs Chomba lamented that the scourge which was rampant in senior chief Shimumbi has reached alarming levels in the area and needed urgent attention by the government and other stakeholders.
She explained that children below the age of 15 need parental care instead of forcing them into early marriages which they later fail handle.
Mrs Chomba appealed to senior chief Shimumbi and his subjects to look into the matter seriously and advised families on the need to encourage their children to go to school.
Parents should in the area should desist from marrying off their children at the tender age in spite of the economic conditions which they face , she said.
“ Instead of looking at marriage as a solution to their economic woes , parents must persevere and take their girl children to school because education is a form investment that has lasting economic benefits for both the child and the family, “ Mrs Chomba, who is also a gender based activist, said.
She said children who are forced into early marriages fail to contain pressure of marital problems which arise with marriage such as poverty and failure to take children to school.
Mrs Chomba also advised villagers to refrain from gender related Violence which include wife battering and wife beating husbands, excessive beer drinking, house breaking, quarrelling and fighting which later result in physical assault, causing actual bodily harm and deaths.
And village headmen who declined to be named said children who have been married off sometimes die during delivery because they are under aged.
He said the consequences from early marriages are many and some of them include children born with physical or mental conditions such as cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy.
He explained that efforts to discourage early marriages proved futile because the communities lacked the information on the dangers of both early marriages and gender based violence.
I think the case should be the other way round. 15 years old is adult enough, how can a 75 year old over power a 15 year old boy. A tribunal needs to be set for this case. It does not make sense. It is the boy who should be detained for indecent assault
I thought that the case is DEFILEMENT and not rape, the two are different. If it doesn’t make sense to you then hope this makes sense: defilement – having carnal knowledge of a person (male or female) who is underage(16 years in Zambia) WITH or WITHOUT their consent. This means that even if the boy agreed to sleeping with her, she still defiled him. Even if the boy proposed sex to the woman and she accepted, it is still called defilement.
Many boys are being defiled out there as much as our girls. But usually pipo and the authorities do not really pay attention if its a boy as much as they do for girls. Defilement has the same psychological impact on girls and boys. its high time we also protect our boys the way we protect our girls because the devil is out there using old women and men to destroy the lives of our innocent children. We should not say he should have run away just because its a boy but if its a girl we say its defilement.
We do this in the Caribbean all the time. The white man indoctrinated us into this. It is the older women who teach the younger boys about sex. It is part of our rich culture.
It is part of your culture.NOT our african culture.
NO,NO,NO,naena alefwaya pantu sampo ikala mumatanta nomba how did she manage to reach the bottom?