Agency reports cases of school girls pregnancies
Thur Jul 31, 2008 4:00pm
A local non government agency has reported that over 30 primary
school girls were pregnant in South Bougainville over the last five
years.
President of the Leitana Women's Development Agency, Helen Hakena
said this was reported by a headmaster from one of the schools in Bana
District this week.
Mrs Hakena said the report stated that many of the girls were raped
and this is a shock in Bougainville.
She also said that this week, a mother with her 8 children from the
Solos area in Buka reported her husband for incest.
She said the
father had forcefully had sex with his 8 children over the last 10
years until now. Leitana Women's Development Agency has been working very closely with
the police on this case
The agency has records of incest reports from the same area as a
result of families living in the bush in isolation from the main
villages. |
