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__**Child Rape is epidemic in Zimbabwe**__

The number of cases of child rape in Zimbabwe have been shockingly high that shocked human rights activists. A clinic in the captial, Harare has treated nearly 30,000 girls and boys over a span of four years which is an average of 20 per day. There was a 10 year girl who was molested by her neighbor when her parents left the country to look for work. There was a 14 year old boy who was gang raped by four other men and also drugged and sodomised for more than a week. He said this "Four men waylaid me on my way from school" and "I was taken to a shop where they showed me pornographic material." The name of the clinic is Family Support Trust Clinic. One of the co-founders is Dr. Robert-Grey Choto who is a paediatrician said In the last four years we have seen over 29,000 cases, and in the last 10 years we have more than 70,000 at this clinic alone." What they called the boy was lewis and had an hiv test which turned out negative which was lucky for him. One of the clinic's counselors, Chipo Mukome said the problem is getting worse because of parents leaving their children to their aunts and uncles. The people who parents live their children could be the one who could have raped them. Another organization, Girl Child Network (GCD), the owner, Betty Makoni rescued more than 35,000 girls. Makoni told the guardian this, "We have children forced to marry under the age of 13. We have children who were held hostage and raped in militia camps during the political violence who are now giving birth to their own children. We still have children being raped because of the myth that if a man with HIV has sex with a virgin he will be cured of his virus." There was an interesting fact from the GCD which was that 10 girls report rape everyday in Zimbabwe and another 10 victims remain silent. The youngest known victim was a baby of one day; the oldest was a woman aged 93.In Zimbabwe the average life span decreased due to HIV/Aids and now it is 37 for men and 34 for women also it is among the lowest around the world. A reason for why the parents for fleeing Zimbabwe to look for job is because of the unemployment level in Zimbabwe is 90%. Another reason for people raping children is because of people have diffculties in relationships with others so they pick on young children.

Sources: BBC: [] The Guardian: []

These two articles are different by first, their title is not exactly the same. Also the article from BBC provided an extra picture than the article from The Guardian. The Guardian has a quote from a prime minister of Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change and from Betty Makoni but the BBC didn't have any quotes from them. The BBC had this quote from Gillian Gotora that The Guardian didn't have. Also they're different the 2nd half of the article, BBC went on to something else while the Guardian was talking about the GCD and other info. They were similar by having the same picture which was the picture of people's feet by a pond, i think. They had the same quote from the 14 year boy and Dr. Robert-Grey Choto. Also the numbers that were reported by each source was the same.

My thought on this event is that it's horrible so many kids, adults, and babies are getting raped. It should be stopped as fast as possible, I mean kids are even getting drugged. The number of people getting raped over a 10 year span is a staggering number, a number that I would never thought a country would have. It's lucky how some people are HIV negative but the rest are not, they could have HIV at a young age and would haunt them for the rest of their life. It sickens me even how babies could get HIV from being raped and not inheiriting from their parents. Though we're rescuing kids and helping others there's no way we could save them all unless we get rid of the source and who is doing this to innocent people. But I wonder why how come the Zimbabwe government isn't doing anything, I mean they're supposed to help and protect people not let them get hurt and scarred for the rest of their life. But this event should be stopped or helped out more so that less kids or people are getting hurt or raped.