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Name of story : Taxi driver rapes boy, 10
Name of journalist: Joe-Brown Tlhaselo
Name of publication: The Midweek Sun
Date: 6 June 2011
Country: Botswana
Theme: Child abuse
Skills: Fairness
Genre: News
Gem classification: Gender aware
Description:
A 39 year old taxi driver of Zezuru origin was on Monday released from police custody in Palapye following his arrest on Saturday evening shortly after dragging a ten year old Standard Four boy to the bush where he allegedly raped him.
It is heart rending of an otherwise jovial and hyperactive child who would not have guessed at what was about to happen to him when his trusted driver offered to help him. Relating the sordid events of his ordeal to both his family and later to the police, the young boy still exuded his happy go lucky element and spoke with the confidence, bravery, and authority of someone triple his age. He told of how he refused an offer of P5-00 meant to keep the rape a secret.
This was after the heavily bearded man had been shocked by the boy's threat to report him to his family and also to a court of law. In the boy's world, any such incident has to be reported to the court, not the police. And in his narration at the police station, he implored the men in blue to lock up the taxi driver for the rest of his life and feed him only with samp until he dies.
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