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Police Urge Communities To Protect The Girl Child

1 year agoTue, 10 Jan 2023 11:06:05 GMT
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Police Urge Communities To Protect The Girl Child

Police in Harare have appealed to parents and guradians to safeguard the girl child following a rise in sexual abuse cases.

Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson in Harare Province, Inspector Julius Luckmore Chakanza, said:

The spiralling increase in sexual abuses of juveniles and minors by both strangers and relatives is worrisome.

May we all, as societies, take a keen interest in ensuring that they are protected from all incidents and circumstances that expose them to danger.

For instance, it is not good anymore for parents to sleep in the same room with children.

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Neither is it wise anymore for girl children to be left in the company of males, relatives, or strangers.

This comes after police arrested a 39-year-old Waterfalls man during the Christmas holiday for raping his 15-year-old biological daughter twice during his wife’s absence.

The wife had travelled to Marondera to attend a funeral leaving the victim and four other children in the care of the accused.

In the first instance, the father raped her daughter around 11 PM after he lifted her from the floor and placed her onto the bed.

In the second instance, on 25 December 2022, the father followed and raped her daughter at her mother’s friend where she had sought refuge fearing further sexual abuse.

The matter came to light when the girl’s mother returned home from the funeral.

The mother had sought explanations over some things which she found amiss and the girl could not answer her.

Insp Chakanza said the girl was eventually taken to the hospital for medical examinations where the abuse was discovered. | Suburban

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