EDITORIAL: To whom should the Namibian child turn?
“When a hyena wants to eat its own children, it first accuses them of smelling like goats.”
This African adage resounds thunderously with a shocking case currently in court, in which a father allegedly raped his own minor son for several years, since the boy was just a few months old. Shockingly, this allegedly happened with the help of the man’s mother, the boy’s grandmother.
And contrary to popular belief that such crimes often happen in destitute families where both resources and education are in short supply, this father is a well-to-do man, born in a wealthy family, who lives in a posh Windhoek suburb. The fact that he is a medical doctor, who understands both the legal and health implications of his alleged sadistic assault on his own son, is painfully aggravating.
His son was helpless by virtue of his age, and he likely frequently suffered in silence out of fear, ignorance and not knowing whom to turn to. No one saved him from the lusty claws of the man who should have been his first line of defence.
Children in Namibia are in serious peril. If they are not even safe in the care of their own parents, who will rescue them? Even the church is teeming with predatory imbeciles. The Namibian child is on his own. He is an endangered species.
This African adage resounds thunderously with a shocking case currently in court, in which a father allegedly raped his own minor son for several years, since the boy was just a few months old. Shockingly, this allegedly happened with the help of the man’s mother, the boy’s grandmother.
And contrary to popular belief that such crimes often happen in destitute families where both resources and education are in short supply, this father is a well-to-do man, born in a wealthy family, who lives in a posh Windhoek suburb. The fact that he is a medical doctor, who understands both the legal and health implications of his alleged sadistic assault on his own son, is painfully aggravating.
His son was helpless by virtue of his age, and he likely frequently suffered in silence out of fear, ignorance and not knowing whom to turn to. No one saved him from the lusty claws of the man who should have been his first line of defence.
Children in Namibia are in serious peril. If they are not even safe in the care of their own parents, who will rescue them? Even the church is teeming with predatory imbeciles. The Namibian child is on his own. He is an endangered species.
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