Huambo – At least 20 criminal cases of sexual abuse of minors, mostly committed by their own parents and guardians, are awaiting trial in the District Court of Huambo, ANGOP learned on Wednesday.
The information was provided by the presiding judge of the District Court of Huambo, António Filipe Sebastião, during a round table on 'good governance, transparency and anti-corruption practices', as part of the celebrations of the 32nd anniversary of IGAE, which is marked today, under the motto 'More rigor, transparency and control'.
At the time, the judge said that these are frequent harmful behaviors, in which the court has not had contemplations, as they are crimes that must be punished exemplarily.
'Just yesterday we received a lawsuit from a 35-year-old stepfather who raped his wife's three-year-old daughter, who is currently in a very serious state of health,' he said.
According to reports from the procedural support unit of the guarantee judge, he continued, in recent times, there are many problems of this kind in the province of Huambo, mainly involving close relatives of the victims, including stepfathers, parents, cousins and grandparents.
For this reason, he considered it important that studies be carried out with all the sectors that intervene in the administration of justice, in order to assess the reason for these harmful behaviors of the offenders.
The magistrate said that the District Court of Huambo works satisfactorily with the National Police, the Attorney General's Office and the General Inspectorate of State Administration (IGAE) taking into account the important role they play in the various stages of procedural instruction.
He informed that, as a result of this relationship, the local District is processing three embezzlement cases, which involve municipal administrators and other public managers already exonerated, whose trial may take place soon.
In addition to this Judicial District, which includes the municipalities of Cachiungo and Chicala-Cholohanga, the judicial region of Huambo also has the Courts of the District of Caála (Chinjenje, Ecunha, Longonjo and Ucuma) and Bailundo (Londuimbali and Mungo). ZZN/JSV/ALH/DOJ
