By: Samson Folarin
A non-governmental organisation, Mirabel Centre,
has urged parents to open up discussions on sex with their children.
The Chief Executive Officer of the group, Itoro
Eze-Anaba, said to curb the rising cases of child abuse, parents must allow
children in their formative years to be vocal about sexual matters.
She said this in Lagos during the 5th edition of
‘The Conversation’ a quarterly public dialogue that focuses on child abuses and
modern parenting methods, a statement said on Monday.
She said, “It is high time people started speaking
about rape. Parents must allow their children to discuss matters that are
sexually-explicit in nature.
“Rape matters must evolve from being about the
victim to being about the perpetrator because a large number of those who have
been assaulted have had to face the consequences of their ordeal despite their
innocence.”
The CEO of Attitudinal Development International,
Timilehin Oyebode, however, said suspected rapists didn’t necessarily deserve
jail sentence because “paedophilia is a psychological problem that requires
only a psychological solution.”
Joy Bewaji, the program’s convener, also echoed
Timilehin’s position, saying “the greatest leap in the issue of abuses is the
courage to openly discuss them.”
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