Responding to escalating rape cases: what could be done :: Mmegi Online

For years, society has been condemning rapists for their awful acts and the pain they inflict on their victims who are mostly women and girls something that recently forced the government to review and increase penalties against sexual offences. However, rape continues to worriedly spiral out of control. The question is, what could be done to curb this scourge? Mmegi Staff Writer PINI BOTHOKO wonders

Demonstrated by police statistics it is evident that women and girls in Botswana live in the deepest fear of rapists causing harm to them as they please. Women and girls are woken up from their deep sleep in an attack and raped. Some are attacked and raped while walking alone either day or night whilst some are even raped by their close family members and friends.

Every week Mmegi carries stories of women and girls being raped some sexually assaulted by older men forcing the police to run helter-skelter in an effort to restore peace and tranquillity, unfortunately, to no avail as these cases continue to spiral out of control.

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