Kazungula police nab two for defilement
Pini Bothoko | Wednesday December 4, 2013 15:52
Kazungula Police Station commander, Superintendent Vusimusi Jorowe said two families lodged separate reports that their daughters, who had just completed their Primary School Leaving Examination, were missing from home.
“The police went in search and retrieved the two girls from two different men sleeping with them in their houses,” he alleged.
Jorowe said that they arrested the two men aged between 21-25 years after the young girls were allegedly found in the men’s bedrooms by a joint search team of police and the parents.
He said the men are currently in police custody pending investigations.
“The young girls were referred to Kasane Primary Hospital for treatment and were discharged the same day.
“We advised their parents to take the young girls for counselling because that experience might affect them as they are not ready for sexual activities,” he said.
Still on the matter, Jorowe advised parents to instil discipline in their girl children to avoid cases of defilement, rape and other sexual related issues, especially at this time of school holidays.
Jorowe said that ever since the schools closed last Friday children, especially young girls have been seen roaming around the village even at night, something that he explained might be dangerous to their lives.
He told Mmegi that they were investigating both cases of defilement.
He challenged parents to exercise caution and be vigilant in parenting their children, especially towards their young girls who might do things that will affect their future.
“I wonder how a parent can be comfortable when a girl aged 13 is not home by nightfall.
“I think the problem starts with parents.
They should teach their children good behaviour and to wait for the right time to engage in sexual activities.
“This is putting them at high risk of being infected by HIV/AIDS at such a tender age,” said Jorowe.
Jorowe said that parents who neglect their children will be arrested and charged with negligence.
He said that parents should know that it is their responsibility to take care of their children, teach them what is right and wrong and raise them to be good people in future.
He said that there were parents who have a tendency of spending most of their time focusing on themselves, abusing alcohol and not caring what their children are up to.
He said that they should know that it is against the law.
Specific to men, Jorowe pleaded with them to refrain from having sexual relationships with children of less than 16 years.
He said it is a punishable offence in which the offender faces imprisonment of 10 years or above.
“Men should learn to respect themselves. There are high cases of teenage pregnancies in most of the schools.
“Those girls are not impregnated by their schoolmates but by older men in the community,” he said.