Govy Please Protect Our Children!

Monday, August 31, 2020

Rape is one of the social ills that has been afflicting our communities for a long time and still continues to.

Sadly, the numbers don’t seem to be dwindling and if anything they keep going up. Rape is a horrendous crime and it deserves to be treated as such, even more heinous whence committed on a defenceless child.

More horrifying is the sentence that rapists get that is little more than a slap on the wrist compared to the harm and destruction they cause to the victims.

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Govy Please Protect Our Children!

Rape is one of the social ills that has been afflicting our communities for a long time and still continues to.