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NGOCC Back Calls to Stiffen Penalty for Sexual Offenders
Non Governmental Organization Coordinating Council has backed calls by High Court Judge Chalwe Mchenga to review the penal law that introduced the fifteen years minimum sentence for sexual offenders.
NGOCC Chairperson Beatrice Grillo has told QFM in an interview that it would be wise enough for government to further stiffen the penalty for sexual offenders.
Ms. Grillo says the NGOCC has been lobbying government to stiffen the sentence for sexual offenders in view of the fact that most convicted sexual offenders repeat the same offence after being released from prison.
She says this is an indication that the current punishment being meted out on sexual offenders is not stiff enough to deter them from committing the same offence.
Ms Grillo has further called the strict enforcement of laws relating to sexual offences.
And Zambia National Women’s Lobby Chairperson Beauty Phiri has expressed sadness adding that despite the ratification of the Penal Code Amendment Act No. 15 of 2005 which introduced fifteen years minimum sentence for most sexual offences, the sentences has not deterred perpetrators of sexual offences.
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SOUP
January 8, 2014 at 12:46 pm
As a christian nation deliverance is another option to such offences because even death penalty has failed to deter other people from committing murder.
pettie
January 8, 2014 at 4:09 pm
It is true.The penalty for sexual offenders should be tough.I suggest death sentence.It takes some one who has past through that to understand what i am talking about especially if it’s your wife or girl child who has been sexually abused.Fifty year is not enough because it leaves a lot trauma to the victim.VITENDENI their ****** Useless human beings.They are not fit to live on earth
KA GELO
January 8, 2014 at 4:22 pm
@Pettie, I totally agree with you 101%.
Zed
January 8, 2014 at 5:48 pm
Its just not about screaming from the rooftops! Laws require careful thinking and should never be based on emotions. So what happens if a 13yr old boy has sex with a 10yr old girl? The child must be sentenced to death?
cimbusa
January 8, 2014 at 6:14 pm
i totally agree na ba zed,law should not be based on emotions,people have killed and jailed,save the sentence come back in to society and still commit the same crimes
mbulo m
January 8, 2014 at 9:00 pm
I totally agree with them. They should come out in condemning immoral dressing also. The dress code for women has worsened, boob exposure and revealing clothes. Please parents teach your children. Pastors speak against it instead of concentrating on prosperity gospel.
caz
January 9, 2014 at 3:54 am
Castration is the best punishment
haiggy
January 9, 2014 at 6:27 am
this ngocc woman should concentrate on helping the need, she seems to be everywhere. Whats wrong with a man admiring a woman who is beautiful just coz she is not. Most the self aclaimed women christians are the one that want sex more.
Amuna Onzuna
January 9, 2014 at 10:12 am
The devil is working in women, their dressing and behavior is generally pathetic. Women have generally become a conduit , a source of distraction , a source of evil , therefore NGOCC should concentrate more on educating women on how to dress and conduct themselves on the street. Hush punishment should only be given where there was rape.
ba Zambia
January 9, 2014 at 10:19 am
There should be a clause which states that the maximum age difference between 2 juveniles who have sexual contact with each other should be 2 years before the matter can be dealt with as a defilement case. This should only apply if both children are aged below 16. A 14 yr old who has sex with a 9 year old should prosecuted by the courts, however a 14 year old who has sex with a 13yr old should be disciplined by their parents… flogging makamaka!
mundiaM
January 9, 2014 at 2:50 pm
Eyo, that is correct, why send any of the children to jail? Just give them very serious strokes on their bottoms such that they cannot sit for a week. That will be the end of bad manners as good children refer to sex.
CHIPASA "INGE"
January 9, 2014 at 12:34 pm
Without malice, i want to advice Chalwe Mchenga and Grillo-like NGO women not to say something to please women or be emotional when it comes to put up laws. It is such attitudes that contribute to making this country fail to reduce cases of human infringement. Like many bloggers have commented, which punitive law in Zambia has successfully helped to reduce on the occurrence of any particular vice? Talk of murder,theft,corruption,violence,incest, rape,traffic cases etc. The reason is; we feel punishment is the only correctional way of doing things.We fail to apply our minds to think of preventive measures. We enjoy in this country to be reactive other than be proactive. As a judge Mr Mchenga must have realized, as correctly as he put it that some of these measures can not deter, however long the sentences may be, culprits and would be culprits to continue doing the same things. Remember even in the prisons where you are sending these culprits you are still grappling with similar acts such as sodomy committed not only freely but also forced. How then are you going to protect innocent inmates from these vultures who will remain in there for life?
One more thing you advocates must realize, which is widely acknowledged by all including judges and women movements is that; at least 30% of those in jail are innocent,but just victims of circumstances in one way or the other.Would your conscious be free to confine such people for long or perpetually? Do you realize a lot of women consent to sexual acts but later pretend having been raped simply because they could not get their anticipated ‘rewards?’I am not wholesomely denying that there are no human beasts that have ravaged our communities.All i am saying is that let us find helpful solutions that may rid our country of such unfortunate scourges, not only sex related ones. Do not opt for the easy but non effective ways. If those in leadership have run out of ideas they better step aside and let level headed individuals take up the tasks.