F/town registers 25 defilement cases within few months

Radisigo revealed the statistics during a virtual Francistown City Council (FCC) full council meeting recently. In his address, the mayor said that in his previous full council session address, he raised the alarm over the escalating number of child abuse cases in the city.

He stated that during the second quarter of the year alone, the second city registered 25 cases of defilement, an increase from the previous quarter. According to Radisigo, during the previous quarter, which ended in June this year, they registered 18 cases of defilement. He added that the statistics for the two quarters show that there is an increase of 38% of defilement cases recorded in the last nine months. He said that it has been established that most of the cases occur when schools are closed.