DRC: Getting away with rape

Jenne, a nine year old girl from North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was violenty raped by a neighbor. Her parents made a promise to make him pay. They obtained a lawyer from the police. The man tipped off the police to let him out of jail and he got away. He came back once the police left and threatened to kill Jenne’s father. Jenne’s father was staying at home to take care of their other three children while Jenne’s mother remained at the hospital to take care of Jenne. The family ran away and is too afraid to return. The neighbor is staying at home. They now have no place to live and are frightened on how they will survive.


I think that the way the police handled this account was severely wrong. The police should not have let him out of jail let alone unattended. Because the police deliberately forgot their duty to the people have now caused a family grief and for the most part have cost them a home. The neglect makes me sick. The uninvolvement toward statutory rape is unacceptable. There is now a family without a home who has a daughter in the hospital and there is a man who raped a little girl left unattended. Because the police did such a horrible another little girl may be raped as well. Not only is it just a mother, father and a daughter, this affects the way three other kids will survive.