A regional commissioner in Tanzania, John Mongella, has announced that
pregnant teenagers will now be arrested and charged to court, The
Citizen reports.Mongella, speaking on Monday, said pregnant teenagers have a tendency to
not divulge who it was that got them pregnant. They should be taken to
court, he said, and should be forced to testify and name the persons who
impregnated them. He said:
There have been a tendency of pregnant schoolgirls not to mention the
name of a person who impregnated them. This is a challenge when one is
required to testify in court.
Directors and district commissioners in the Mwanza region have been
ordered to locate all pregnant schoolgirls and take them to court.
This is following a move in June by Tanzanian President John Magufuli,
where he upheld a law that bans girls from returning to school after
they have given birth.
Both the upholding of the law and the move by Mongella have been
described as an infringement against the human rights of the girls.
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