UNDERAGE MOTHERS
Call for parents to lay charges
THE blame for underage pregnancies lay with government, which has given children too many rights at the expense of parents’ authority, said Zulu cultural activist Nomagugu Ngobese.
She has called on the public, teachers, doctors and nurses to report such pregnancies to the police, so the men responsible can be charged with rape or statutory rape.
“Even parents who accept inhlawulo (payment for a pregnancy outside of marriage) instead of laying charges, should also be arrested because such parents are accessories to the crime,” she said.
Ngobese was reacting
