Director for Police Special Protection Units at Torit Central Division, Captain Gabriel Lubate Severino is calling on South Sudanese to stop all forms of rape against girls.
Captain Lubate said girls below 17 years are at risk of unwanted pregnancy and sexual transmitted diseases as a result of forceful and unprotected sex.
‘Children may end up getting pregnant and some are getting pregnant at the age of seventeen, sixteen, fifteen and fourteen. It is really risking that child will not be able to take care of their baby sometimes may reach to the point of dead he cannot pull the child up because he is still young and she is not mature even to stay at the home she cannot bear that she cannot manage that’, he explained.
Captain Lubate disclosed that cases of sexual transmitted diseases are rampant in the state.
He called on the local population to protect themselves against the situation.
‘Am afraid also other sicknesses are there out there HIV, STI and other more sickness like now we have cases like diseases killing people like Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C these are the diseases that we are all going through the practices so it is really dangerous’, he cautioned.
He advised parents to send their children to school so as to be better future leaders.
‘So we should allow these children to grow and go to school and tomorrow they become better people when a girl is married when she is already twenty, eighteen at least mature that is like you’re eating ripen fruit, but if it is not ripen and you begin to eat what are you enjoying there you have been enjoying nothing’, he said.
The Speaker made the remarks in an exclusive interview on Wednesday.