Teen sexual predators have to chill has the law ‘plunges harder’

The menace of teen pregnancies in Kenya has not a lasting solution. Despite the levels of pregnancies rising and this year recording a massive increase in the number, the state is still struggling to figure out an escape.

Top government officials have been hurling different threats to the predators. CS Amina has even formed a task to look into the matter but a lasting solution has not been brought to table.

This incidences have not started now, They have been their but undercover. Most poor families living in ghetto and rural areas are the victims of sexual predators who lure their children with little things to win sexual favors then impregnating them.

Few weeks ago Moses Wetangula proposed the castration of the predators to curb the menace. It seems many top politicians are echoing the same tone.

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Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi has proposed that the Sexual Offenses Act be amended to provide for the castration of men who defile young girls as one way of dealing the teenage pregnancy menace.

Speaking during an the official launch of 16 days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, a function also attended by Gender Chief Administrative Secretary Racheal Shebesh at Matsangoni, the governor urged residents to stop involving themselves in gender-based violence.

“In Saudi Arabia, if you steal your hands are chopped off; we will not joke, we shall come up with laws at the county assembly [so that] if we get evidence that one has impregnated a teenage girl, he is castrated in public,’’ he said.

Mr Kingi said the 13,000 cases of teenage pregnancies in Kilifi are shocking since it will lead to a poverty-stricken generation in the future.

“It is absurd that the 13,000 girls’ future is spoilt while the perpetrators are busy educating their children to get good jobs while their victims languish in poverty,” he added.

To put to an end the issue of teenage pregnancies menace, Mr Kingi said parents must play a leading role of protecting and bringing up their children well.

He also put on notice chiefs and their assistants who determine cases of teenage pregnancies locally, saying they will face the full force of the law.

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On her part, Ms Shebesh called upon the governor and County Commissioner Magu Mutindika to begin a major crackdown against those who impregnate young girls and those marrying teenage girls.

Ms Shebesh said if the operation manages to get about 200 men it will scare away others who are fond of preying on school children.

Do you think this will help curb teen pregnancies in the country?

 

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