The report quotes the survivor as saying her teacher abused her on several occasions in the rubber farm and the school campus. The release of the alleged perpetrators comes amid the increasing waves of sexual abuse cases in 2020. The Ministry of Gender says it has documented more than 900 gender-based violence cases including rape in 2020 alone. The President, among other things, designated a specific prosecutor to handle rape cases and announced the setting up of a national sex offender registry. Meanwhile, in Liberia, thousands of students, mostly females suffer various forms of sexual abuse from mostly their male teachers.

Source: Front Page Africa October 20, 2020 06:06 UTC