Two children under the age of 8 were sexually raped by their own parents, in the provinces of Luanda and Benguela, according to the weekly report from INAC’s SOS-Criança Service, which receives reports from across the country, involving violence against the defenseless.
The case of rape, in Luanda, occurred, specifically, in the municipality named after the country’s capital, from where the National Children’s Institute (INAC) received a total of six reports of abuse against minors, with emphasis on two that report that they were victims of sexual assault. “An 8-year-old female child is the victim.
According to the complaint, the abuse has been repeatedly committed by the parent”, reports the INAC document, which also states that the aggressor is in detention, while the case continues its subsequent procedures with the Security Service. Criminal investigation. The other minor, a victim of sexual rape committed by her own father, lives in the province of Benguela, where the sum of all cases of abuse against minors resulted in three, in the municipalities of Lobito and Catumbela.
According to the complaint made by the victim’s maternal grandmother, the minor, motherless, was raped several times by her own father, in the municipality of Lobito. “The child, aged 8, is motherless and was abused by her father, aged 39. According to the complaint made by the maternal grandmother, this is a recurring practice. The aforementioned father has been abusing his daughter for some time, threatening her with death if she told anyone the facts”, it reads.
In addition to these cases, in Luanda, a minor under the age of 14 was raped by five teenagers aged between 15 and 17, who took advantage of her fragility while she was traveling on public roads. The victim is being psychologically monitored by INAC. In Benguela, the case of a minor under the age of 14 who was sexually raped by a 60-year-old Chinese citizen was also presented. The person involved in the criminal act was caught red-handed in an inn, and was subsequently detained.
In the province of Uíge, INAC received a report of sexual abuse, in which a 12-year-old child was the victim, attacked by an alleged 54-year-old pastor, who was also arrested. On the other side of the country, in Malanje, of the 30 reports that reached INAC, one of sexual abuse stood out, which occurred in the main municipality, Canambua neighborhood, with a 10-year-old child being the victim of a 29-year-old individual.
Mistreatment
A minor under 10 years old, in the municipality of Kilamba Kiaxi, was, for a significant period of time, the victim of mistreatment and accusations of witchcraft practices. The complaint states that the attacks were recurrently carried out by the father himself, whose actions forced the child to leave the house to an uncertain place. In Icolo and Bengo, Luanda province, an 8-year-old child was the target of successive physical attacks and mistreatment carried out by his mother. The neighbors were forced to break down the door of the attacker’s house in order to remove the minor.
They then proceeded to report the incident, which resulted in the arrest of the accused, at the Municipal Police Command, at the Zango 5 police station. In the province of Namibe, in Moçâmedes, there was a case of physical aggression and ill-treatment whose victim was an 8-year-old child. The INAC report showed that this was a recurring practice committed by the father, on public roads.
Exploitation of child labor
Finally, from the municipality of Talatona, INAC received four complaints, with emphasis on the case of a 14-year-old male child who has been a victim of child labor. According to the complaint, the child was exploited by an individual aged approximately 36 years, who forced the victim to sell alcoholic beverages and some psychoactive substances, until the early hours, in a commercial establishment.
