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Criminal Code To Criminalise Deliberate Infection Of Minors With Sexually Transmitted Diseases

9 months agoTue, 25 Jun 2024 06:42:44 GMT
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Criminal Code To Criminalise Deliberate Infection Of Minors With Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Zimbabwe’s Criminal Law and Codification and Reform Amendment Bill will criminalise the deliberate infection of children with any sexually transmitted disease in addition to jailing offenders for engaging in sexual relations with minors.

While the Bill primarily raises the age of consent from 16 to 18, owners of lodges will also be prosecuted if they are complicit in renting rooms to someone for sexual activity with a child, reported The Herald.

Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi steered the Bill through the National Assembly after robust debate last week.

Ziyambi agreed to amendments to some proposals and proposed additional amendments to offer children greater protection.

This Tuesday, the proposed law will be presented in the Senate.

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During the debate at the committee stage of the Bill, Ziyambi tabled amendments which criminalise the intentional transmission of STIs to a child, which will include syphilis, gonorrhoea, herpes, and HIV among others. Reads the amendment:

A court convicting a person for any crime constituting unlawful sexual conduct against a child shall, if it also convicts that person for deliberately infecting that child with a sexually transmitted disease, not make any part of the sentence of imprisonment imposed for the latter crime run concurrently with any sentence of imprisonment imposed for the first-mentioned crime.

A previous proposal in the draft Bill that reintroduced criminalising deliberate infection with HIV for everyone, regardless of the age of the person infected, was dropped.

However, the wilful infection of children was strengthened.

The draft Bill raised the age of consent and gave discretion to the Prosecutor-General on whether to prosecute when the couple were close in age.

However, the Prosecutor-General first needs to refer a case involving juvenile offenders to a probation officer before the National Prosecuting Authority decides whether to prosecute them or not. Said Ziyambi:

There may be a consistent behaviour that may be picked by the probation officer in that particular individual. If they are first-timers, I do not think that the probation officer will then prefer that without any reasonable cause because the Prosecutor General will interrogate that report and be able to satisfy herself that the case should be prosecuted.

The Bill also includes a clause on how to handle cases where an accused person claims they thought a child under 18 was older, based on the child’s physical appearance.

If that situation comes up, the Prosecutor-General must provide proof showing the accused person knew the child was below the legal age of consent.

This is the current position in the courts with the lower age of consent.

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11 Comments

theLastAntKing · 9 months ago
only solution to pedophile is to castrate them. Munhu anoda kurara nevana vadiki ngaadamburwe m.b.o.ro. Bhuru wani rinoitwa jomwasi
Mutundo · 9 months ago
Tangai mapedza yaChivharo ne shamwari dzake ! Vana vacho vakomburena here ? Serious issues first !
Captain Jack Sparrow · 9 months ago
In this day and age a parliamentary deliberation on such a bill is truly pathetic. It shows how our beloved country is centuries behind a retarded and backwards country , such is the nation of ZIM and it's citizens kkkk
Zim-Sketch · 9 months ago
these kids will actually infect you with these STIs
👀👀 · 9 months ago
angamuzive kt ane 16 to 18 yrs nditani,vana vacho are maturing zvekut ane 16 wacho unogona kufunga kt ane 25
Zeus mfana · 9 months ago
First arrest these ****s zanu pf thugs, rapist, other peoples wife snatchers, looters, money changers, land/companies snatchers busy infecting young girls, start wth tht fool who feel on stage saying I need water
Saziso · 9 months ago
What if the minor already had HIV? This country its always about S*x why not talk about people being bothered by City Council when selling their product, so where will they get income. Why not talk about potholes causing accidents on the roads? Why not talk about money changers in the streets? Instead it's always about S*x and the girls being protected are the ones who are looking for it.
Saziso · 9 months ago
For the minor to go to a lodge fully aware that they will have s*x they would have consented. What do they mean the age of consent. What is to consent? According to Merriam Webster dictionary to Consent is compliance in or approval of what is done or proposed by another. So are you saying a minor cannot consent? Or rather are they saying a minor cannot Agree, agree is a synonym of consent. The law must protect girls and boys 11 years and below. Protecting a 16 year old girl who watch ****ography at school at looking for s*x that is a joke really.
Saziso · 9 months ago
I don't hate girls I have a daughter also she's 16 years, and I took her phone looked at browser history she watched ****ography then I admonished her about it telling her about dangers of it even mental health. I asked her how she came about to know that site and in response she said other girls showed her at school. Some they even take about having s*x with their boyfriends. So my question is are these the minors who are being constantly said they cannot consent? For Christ sake even my grandmother was married when she was 16 years old in 1930s. Look at the successful Dr Dre, watch his documentary his mother gave birth to him when she was 15 years. You can't control people's ****ual edges. What is wrong is rape if they agree let them be some minors actually state that they love the guy and were not forced to engage in the act but still they get arrest the boy or man.
Bara · 9 months ago
Sungai @khan first apedza kuzadza vana vadiki nehosha yake 😂 yeshuramatongo mkondombera ari pachirongwa or on program 😂😂😂😂

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