Stringent legislations on child rape

23 January 2012 08:53 am Views - 3961

The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) is to propose stringent legislations including the death sentence to grave rape and molestation on minors and consider child abuse a non-bailable offence, a senior official of the NCPA said today. 

Chairperson, Anoma Dissanayaka of the NCPA said Sri Lanka has seen a steady increase of violence on minors in the recent times and has to put a break to it before it goes out of hand.

“The NCPA expects to propose to the government to bring laws to pass the death sentence on grave rapes on children and make violence on children a non-bailable offence similar to murder,” Mrs. Dissanayakasa said.

Child rape is considered normal rape under the existing law and liable for 20 years of imprisonment. The punishments have to be further enhanced if the violence on children is to be abated and the perpetrators get the right message, Mrs. Dussanayaka stressed.  (Sandun A. Jayasekera)