Offers of help are pouring in for an eight-year-old Liberian girl disowned by her own family in Phoenix, Arizona, after being raped by four boys.
The girl is under the care of the Arizona Child Protective Service (CPS) because her parents said she had shamed them, and they did not want her back.
It seems that the time honored tradition of blaming the female for being raped is alive and well even in America.
This was a 8 year old girl who was lured into a shed by 4 boys who then forcibly raped her who is now being blamed by her own family for what happened.
The boys undoubtedly see nothing wrong with what they did. After all they were just acting the way they have been trained to act.
Here’s a quote from the Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, about the boys. “They too need serious counseling because clearly they are doing something, something that is no longer acceptable in our society here.” –This statement says that rape was, until recently, acceptable behavior.
The Liberian ambassador, M. Nathaniel Barnes says: The reported shunning of an 8-year-old rape victim by her Liberian parents is “not a manifestation of our culture.”
“Liberians everywhere feel some sense of outrage,” Edwin Sele, the embassy’s deputy ambassador says. If the rape had occurred in Liberia instead of Phoenix, “there would be street justice. You’d have a mob.”
Barnes says that after the last war ended, Liberia enacted some of the strictest anti-rape laws on the African continent.
“We also tried to create the appropriate social support network for victims of rape,” Barnes says.
And yet afrol News reports this:
afrol News, 14 December – Sexual violence is believed to have affected around two-thirds of Liberia’s female population as a result of the civil war. No single person has yet been prosecuted
Ambassador: A person who lies for their country.
