Sexual Abuse

Baby rape: the family connection
PEARLIE JOUBERT Apr 16 2007 00:00 | |0 Comments and 0 Reactions
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Im not a bad become. I got a boyfriend who built us a shack to quietus in and I wash my child every solar day and make sure shes never cold or hungry. But then we had a fight and my boyfriend waited for me to go to the shop. Thats when he pushed his penis into my baby. One day I waited appearside the door and when I heard the baby moaning, I went back inside. He took his hand off the childs mouth and pulled up his pants. He said if I weart like it, we can both voetsek and go and pause under a bridge where we belong, says 23-year-old Cynthia Dekella*.

We were living in his shack. He was busy with the baby a couple of times and I thought its better to let him do this product line because at least weve got somewhere to sleep and he bought us food, an expressionless Dekella said.

She only reported the rape of her child a couple of weeks ago, by which time the toddlers vagina was so damaged that she had to undergo reconstructive surgery to the perineum, the area surrounded by the anus and the vagina.





Last year, the Human Sciences Research Council released a report stating that in three out of louvre child rapes, the mother is mindful of the abuse. Every day an estimated 150 children are raped in South Africa -- about 55 000 reported rapes a year. The aesculapian Research Council has found that this figure represents only one out of nine actual rapes. Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child clapperclaw and Neglect (Rapcan) reckons that about half a million children beat out raped in South Africa every year.

Dekella is one of five women from townships in Cape Town who was interviewed by the Mail & Guardian. These womens children, ranging in age from three months to five years, were raped and/or sexually abused by their father or their mothers boyfriend.

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