Relationship between perpetrator and victim as barrier to reporting

Stranger as a perpetrator

Perpetrator as the main family provider

・ Twenty years is really not realistic sentence behind bars. As you have seen we live in the community. Maybe when you look at the people here you will find that they come from the same family or same tribe. And if they find out that their relative is guilty and will be jailed for 20 years or for life, they cannot accept it, so as a community we are used defending ourselves

Reporting of cases depends on the relationship of the perpetrator to the victim. When the perpetrator is a stranger it is a punishable offence and they will be jailed nomater what but when it is a relative it is sorted within the family and the woman parent should keep it as a secret and instruct child never to talk about it

Inadequate service provision by the police

Costly and corrupt police services

Lack of confidentiality by police

The police encourage people to just get money from the perpetrator instead of taking them to the police. Ahhhh And these people are clever while they are negotiating with family to accept monetary compensation they are also negotiating for their own amount from the perpetrator. So they make money out of CSA cases.

The police ask uncomfortable questions in presence of other people such as bana kuchita kangati) how many times were you abused). And honestly no one would want others to know how many times they have been abused and how the abuse was done.