{"id":4982,"date":"2017-01-26T16:06:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2018-03-28T14:11:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:11:39","slug":"sexual-abuse-perpetrators-deserve-severe-punishment-says-a-psychologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/sexual-abuse-perpetrators-deserve-severe-punishment-says-a-psychologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual abuse perpetrators deserve severe punishment, says a psychologist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eleven young girls from Gitega central province and six others from Cibitoke western province are reported to have been sexually abused by two teachers from those provinces. A psychologist talks of an ignoble behavior that needs to be strongly discouraged in the society.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Young girls who have been sexually abused are between 3 and 16 years old.<\/p><\/div>\n

In Buganda Commune of Cibitoke Province, a teacher at Kaburantwa primary school, in his thirties, would have sexually abused six young girls from the same family. They have between 3 and 16 years of age. Their mother feels desperate about their future. \u201cI don\u2019t know what to do. We heard that the alleged perpetrator of the crime might be HIV positive\u201d, says the mother, when she was at \u201cCentre Seruka\u201d waiting for the results of the test for the children. She says the presumed criminal is their neighbor. \u201cI don\u2019t know if he sexually abused my kids\u201d, she says.<\/p>\n

The same scene has previously happened in Gitega province. At \u201cla bergeonnette\u201d primary school, a 59 year old teacher has been accused of having sexually abused his students. Over 16 young girls were brought by their parents to a center for sexual abuse victims, Humura, for test.<\/a><\/p>\n

Jean Bosco Ndayishimiye, a psychologist and lecturer at the University says collective sexual abuse is not only related to psychology but also to the current situation. \u201cThe perpetrators of the crime would be sexually obsessed or just sexual perverts\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n

Ndayishimiye says \u201cheartless\u201d people take advantage of their positions to abuse innocent young girls. \u201cThey may buy sweet things to attract the young girls\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsequences are numerous\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Jean Bosco Ndayishimiye says the victims would be infected with HIV\/AIDS given that the serological condition of the presumed criminals is not yet known. \u201cMoreover, the reproductive organs of the victims would have been damaged as they weren\u2019t mature yet\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n

For this, parents, teachers and administrative officials must intervene to avoid that the victims suffer social stigma. \u201cThey have been physically and psychologically affected. There is a need to prevent any suicidal act or any deviant behavior\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n

Ndayishimiye says severe measures should be taken, if not, other teachers will commit the same crime. A child sexual abuse crime is punishable by between 15 and 25 year jail sentence.<\/p>\n

Ferdinand Simbaruhije, Secretary General for the Federation of Associations Defending Children\u2019s Rights (Fenaded) calls on parents to regularly interact with their children in an open way. \u201cThere are factors like poverty, degradation, unhealthy relationship between spouses etc. that need to be tackled in the family to prevent any unwanted act from happening\u201d, says Simbaruhije.<\/p>\n

Some centers against gender based violence say the figures of sexual abuse are high. The \u201cSeruka Centre\u201d recorded 1288 cases of gender based violence in 2016, among them 20% children under 5 years and 67% youths under 18. In Cibitoke western Province, the Family Development Centre identified 1414 cases of gender based violence in 2016. Among them, 215 cases of sexually abused persons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eleven young girls from Gitega central province and six others from Cibitoke western province are reported to have been sexually abused by two teachers from those provinces. A psychologist talks of an ignoble behavior that needs to be strongly discouraged in the society. In Buganda Commune of Cibitoke Province, a teacher at Kaburantwa primary school, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,670],"tags":[49,972],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}