Bring back the death Penalty for Child Rape

Dr. Kenneth Meshoe MP – ACDP President

Tuesday, 17 September 2002

In Parliament today African Christian Democratic Party President Dr Kenneth Meshoe gave the following motion calling for the return of the death penalty for child rapsists:

Draft Resolution (K R Meshoe) That the House:

1. Notes with sadness that the rape of innocent children in this country has dramatically increased over the past few years.
2. Believes that the easy availability of pornography has played a major role in inflaming the passions of rapists who are now targeting defenceless children.
3. Endorses the calls by the majority of South Africans that capital punishment be reinstated and imposed on dangerous rapists who are not even moved to sympathy by the cries and screams of small children.
4. Believes that the man who brutally raped six-year-old Lerato from Alexandra Township and left her to die with her intestines hanging between her legs about a week ago, does not deserve any jail term, but the death penalty.
5. Expresses concern that a country that can protect overseas delegates who are attending international conferences and summits is dismally failing to protect its citizens, particularly innocent children who are continually abducted and raped by people who do not care about the ineffective criminal laws of our country.

Therefore calls on government to:

i) Prioritize the eradication of child rape from our society.
ii) Heed the calls from our peace-loving people and reinstate the death penalty as a matter of urgency.


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For further comment please call Dr Kenneth Meshoe MP at (021) 4033521 or ACDP Media Liaison Liza Bloemetje at 082 478 1037