They pleaded guilty to the charges and were placed on probation.
They were 15 years old at the time of the offence and it is contended that they believed their secret was safe until one of the parents found out and reported the matter to the police.
A policeman commenting on the issue said the parent who made the report must have been frightened when the girls were charged.
"Sometimes, it is the girls who are the aggressors but, in times past, it is the poor boys alone who had to face the consequences in court," the policeman said.
"I am glad the law has been changed, so girls can be charged along with boys. Children are sent to school to learn, not to be involved in sexual acts.
"This case should be a warning to schoolgirls. Once they are caught, and in agreement with boys, they, too, will be arrested and charged. They may not have to face jail time but the embarrassment of coming to court should be a deterrent for them.
"I have observed many schoolgirls, while on duty, and some of them are really out of order. Sometimes they are teasing boys and forcing them to be intimate with them. Last month, I had to give some schoolgirls a stern warning when I heard the type of argument they were engaged in.
"I think the principals, teachers and guidance counsellors at schools should have weekly counselling sessions with girls and inform them that, under the law, they, too, will be charged for being involved in sexual activities with boys. However, boys, too, must take heed and avoid 16 contact with girls even if girls try to pressure them," he said.
Sadly we seem to ignore the realities out there on the ground as the last reproductive health and ones before surveys have shown us 58.4% of girls in a reporting mechanism done already had two partners in the same year the survey was done and these girls were thirteen years of age, so those who feel that our teens are angels better think again and with the highly sexualised nature of entertainment our refusal as adults to talk openly about sex and paranoid religious and child rights activists around we are in for more suppression of such information and thus kids and teens search and find what they want in ad hoc places.
Section 10 of the Sexual Offences Act states, "A person who has sexual intercourse with another person who is under the age of sixteen years commits an offence"
This is the section under which the four children were charged.
Section 10 of the Sexual Offences Act states, "A person who has sexual intercourse with another person who is under the age of sixteen years commits an offence"
This is the section under which the four children were charged.
So what about same gender sex and teens one might ask at this age as well and in the aforementioned survey Dr Sandra Knight of the Family Planning Board also noted that several teens both male and female also have experimented with devices anally and otherwise which is also illegal if we are to go by the Grievous Sexual Assault charge whereby penetration with a device or finger to the anus or vagina is considered.
Everybody wants to be so self righteous and dictate how persons private affairs should operate as we saw with the hijacking of the discussion around homosexuality recently in the name of fear of a homosexual agenda yet people will always do what they do in private even teens, the issues of minibuses and inappropriate sex is still real and so on.
We need to sit and talk openly with our children frankly as one part of the solution, the other is when oh when will the Ministry of Health ever just stop sanitizing the matters surrounding sex and sexuality as it did in the HFLE fiasco in 2012 and we saw again recently in the CDA bypassed CVCC funded controversial sex ed course.
Peace and tolerance
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