Child abduction cannot go unnoticed, unabated!
Monday, June 20, 2022 | 420 Views |
This affects both children and adults, but of late there have been more cases of child abductions being reported. While challenges like this are not peculiar to Botswana, we as a nation seem not to be doing enough.
By now, we could have ample information on whether the abductions are done by human traffickers or other factors such as being taken for ritual murders.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...