BBC Child Rape Documentary – ACDP MP responds

Cheryllyn Dudley MP (ACDP)

Tuesday, 3 September 2002


Cheryllyn Dudley MP for the African Christian Democratic Party and member of the parliamentary Task Group on the Sexual Abuse of Children said today that she believed that the BBC documentary on child rape in South Africa should be shown in South Africa. “People want reality TV so let them experience true reality TV”, she said.

Cheryllyn described the film as “devastatingly sad.” “But we need a wake up call, and perhaps this will help people take stock of their lives and the choices they make which do not only impact their own lives but the lives of their children, their children’s children, their communities and our nation,” she said.

The documentary was simply factual and did not attempt to over dramatise the issues, yet the horror and tragedy affecting the lives of these families, the communities and South Africa as a whole were vividly portrayed.

Cheryllyn said, “While I was shocked to hear so many grown men admit to believing that sex with a virgin or baby would cure HIV/Aids, I do not agree with the conclusion drawn by the narrator that the HIV/Aids pandemic has pushed people to rape babies on an unprecedented scale. The truth is that HIV/Aids is not the cause but the consequence, just as baby rape is a consequence, and mothers choosing to violently tear their own unborn children from their wombs, is a consequence.

These tragic consequences are the result of the global lie, which South Africans have fallen prey to, that a human beings individual rights and freedoms should be unlimited. South Africans are fed daily on this lie, which the constitution upholds, legislation reinforces and policy spells out through government departments and organisations like PPASA, and Lovelife.

Drunk on this new-found freedom to abuse themselves and others, South Africans call for moral regeneration while, defending pornography, prostitution and strip clubs, choosing to murder unborn babies, promoting oral sex, masturbation, condoms and homosexual lifestyles for teenagers. While spending money on alcohol, lotteries and in casinos, wasting precious family and working hours on “Big Brother” antics and treating criminals like victims and even heroes. “


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For further comment please call Cheryllyn Dudley MP at 082 8906520 or ACDP Media Liaison Liza Bloemetje at 082 781037