03/31/2006
GRANTS
WECHE MOKADHO
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A Challenge to the PCEA Church in Maragua District Issued: Tuesday, March 28, 2006
The Kenyan Community Abroad’s STOP Campaign is very concerned about the reported recommendation to transfer a head teacher accused of sodomizing a student in his school. We believe that there is only one place to transfer such a teacher - the penitentiary (jail). For you cannot transfer a pedophile from one set of children to another. That is the wrong way to STOP child sexual molestation.
Transfer of this teacher would only perpetuate the crime.
We respond with outrage to an article carried by the Kenya Times newspaper
of March 26, 2006 about the stand the PCEA Church in Maragua has taken. Part of the article reads, "The Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) in
Maragua district is demanding that the government transfers with immediate effect a deputy head teacher accused of sodomizing one of his pupils in a local
primary school".
While we appreciate the Church's efforts to root out any child molesters
from the school, and pledge our voice in support of this and other incidents, we are deeply disturbed that your leadership does not seem to understand that criminals are supposed to be arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated.
Again, we painfully ask an open question: Where do you transfer a head
teacher accused of sodomizing one of his pupils? Where? Where? Where?
We call on the PCEA Church to change its view and suggest that the Church
and the community takes the following actions:
1. Go to court immediately and file a restraining order, demand that the
teacher should not be allowed to be within 1,000 feet (300 meters) of any school or institution that deals with children, or any children
2. Ensure that the victim is taken to the hospital for physical and
emotional treatment. Nairobi Women's Hospital's gender violence recovery center (GVRC) offers treatment to both boys and girls.
3. Report the matter to the police to arrest the teacher immediately and
oppose bail because he is a risk to children.
4. Demand a full investigation, prosecution and the stiffest sentence
possible We ask that you join hands with KCA-STOP to lobby the Attorney General (AG) and members of parliament to put laws in place that criminalize adults who sexual molest children or who protect child molesters.
If the church cannot stand in the gap between children and their marauders,
who will?
Regards,
Carolyne Kimiti,
Director, KCA-STOP Campaign
_cmahiti@yahoo.com_ (mailto:cmahiti@yahoo.com)
Web: http:/www.kenyansabroad.org
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