Truth! When law and morality contradict each other, the citizenry has the cruel alternative of either losing moral sense or respect for the law. To corroborate this proposition, the social contract ...

Even Katine has not escaped an increase in sex crime against juveniles in north-eastern Uganda, after a local teacher was arrested and then released in an out-of-court settlement with the child's ...

A Legal practitioner, Mr Isaiah Ode, has decried the rising incidents of defilement, as well as other forms of abuse of minors in the country. Ode made his feelings known in an interview with the News ...

Eastern province has from January 2025, to date, recorded over 200 defilement cases. Eastern Province Police Commanding ...

Legal Practitioner, Musah Ahmed has called for an expansion of the scope of the law on defilement to cover 17-year-olds in the country. According to him, because the law on defilement covers young ...

Pregnant women attend antenatal at Aromo Health Centre III in October 2013. Sexual gender-based violence manifests in various forms such as defilement, rape, among others. PHOTO/ FILE. The notion of ...

At least 111 defilement cases have been recorded by the Nigeria Police Force in Lagos State within the period of three months – between April and June 2023. This was confirmed by the command’s ...

The just released economic survey for 2023 corroborates the tales of increased sexual crimes. Defilement, which accounted for 76.4 per cent of all reported crimes against morality, increased by 6.1 ...

Even though Defilement is a criminal offence that attracts a minimum sentence of seven and a maximum of 25 years in Ghana’s Criminal Law and the Domestic Violence Act, 2007, some callous men still ...