Such atrocities are the reason we must stand together!!! The world is full of crazy things!! In Kenya rapists were sentenced to cut grass as their punishment?! This after raping a 16 yo - no one even made mention of the rape! Our communities need to stop being in denial about these things, we need to confront them and conquer! Together!! What has made the teenager’s trauma even worse is that her assailants are still free. “She can’t understand why people keep coming to ask questions but those men don’t get arrested,” said Rugene. Three of those who raped Liz are pupils at schools near her own and police have had the names of all six attackers since 27 June. After stories appeared in local newspapers, officers were finally sent to arrest those still in school. Teachers at one of the schools asked if the arrests could be postponed to allow them to take part in exams. The request was granted and police claimed afterwards that they were “tricked” by the teachers, who helped the pupils go into hiding. Mary Mahoka, a social worker with a local child protection organisation, said cases such as Liz’s were the product of entrenched chauvinism in her home area of Busia, an impoverished county close to the shore of Lake Victoria. Polygamy was widely practised and girls were not valued by the community, she said. When she first started to work with rape victims in 1998, she found that perpetrators would pay for their crime by handing over a goat or a bag of maize to the girl’s parents. voicesofafrica.co.za/kenyas-women-fight-for-justice-as-rapists-sentenced-to-cut-grass/
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 08:41:58 +0000
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