News:
November 3, 2017
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has urged the security services, the media and the general public to work as each other’s keeper with the aim of protecting victims of sexual assault cases.
Ms. Botchwey who doubles as Member of Parliament for the Anyaa /Sowutuom made the call came in the wake of a recent defilement of a four-year old girl at Assin Adadientem in the Assin South District of the Central Region.
She noted that even though the victim’s face has not been shown, the presence of the face of the parents of the victim all over the media makes it easy for people to identify the residence and the child.
The Minister called on parents to make time for proper parental control and care for children especially the girl-child instead of devoting all their time and attention to economic activities to the detriments of their wards future.
The MP emphasized the need for perpetrators of such acts to be made to face the full rigors of the law instead of associating sexual assaults with superstition based on beliefs that parents of such victims might have committed sins or taboos that had resulted in their children suffering from such heinous crimes.
By Christian Kpesese/ ghanamps.com