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Women are planning to demostrate against the mismanaged of defilement cases in rukungiri district. They allege that defilers offer cash to the local council authorities who instead "sweep" the case under the carpet leaving the culprits to go off scot-free without being tried in court.
In a country like Uganda, this is so widespread. In a more affluent urban setting like Kampala, the defiler would have to pay a lot more money or spend a couple of days in a prison cell until he pays out the prison guards.
The women planning to demostrate against the authorities are only tackling the head of the problem.
The defiled are often girls or boys in a relative's family. Often times, the defilers are very close family friends or relatives. They are also often men or women with "a lot of money" aiding a "poor" family with school fees, food, accommodation, clothes. And because the defilers are family and the bread winners (or parents), they take on these "poverty-striken" children as house help or labourers. These children are meant to do anything that their "financial parents" ask of them. Therefore, in this situation, the blossoming girls who become more attractive in their teens, are a huge temptation which cannot be very hard to resist.
It is then that they are defiled by their own relatives. Once such a case comes up for the local council authorities, it is often hard to take the defiler who is at the same time the bread winner in the family to court or jail. He is fined a little amount of money for the local council authorities and huge settlement for the poor girl's family.
