‘Giving men who offer to marry girls that they would have impregnated lenient sentences fuels child marriages’.-Harare High Court judge Justice Jester Charewa

‘Giving men who offer to marry girls that they would have impregnated lenient sentences fuels child marriages’.-Harare High Court judge Justice Jester Charewa

  A HIGH Court Judge has castigated magistrates who treat men who offer to marry girls that they would have impregnated leniently saying such judicial officers were fuelling child marriages. Harare High Court judge Justice Jester Charewa made the remarks while reviewing two cases in which two men, Shepherd Banda and Everton Chakamoga, both had sexual intercourse with girls under the age of 15 and walked away with lenient sentences after offering to marry the…

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