Parents could face charge for 'tolerating' cohabitation of pregnant minor

Parents could face charge for 'tolerating' cohabitation of pregnant minor
Parents could face charge for 'tolerating' cohabitation of pregnant minor

PALAPYE: The parents of a 16-year-old victim of defilement and those of the 22-year-old perpetrator could face the full wrath of the law if investigations reveal they tolerated the duo's alleged liaison, police have warned.

The mother of the adolescent girl of Magwana ward in Mmashoro village, near Serowe, reported the defilement matter with the Serowe police last week after she (the mother) realised her daughter had fallen pregnant.

Preliminary police investigations have revealed that the young man of the same ward and the victim are in a relationship and had been cohabitating since last October. 

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