Mr Eric Aniva
A Malawian man who was paid by parents as part of tradition to
have s*x with teenagers to welcome them to puberty has landed in
trouble. The man had earlier confessed in an interview.
According to AFP, the Malawian President Peter Mutharika ordered
the arrest of Mr Eric Aniva on Tuesday for being paid to have s*x with
more than 100 adolescent girls as part of a traditional ritual marking
their passage to womanhood.
The order came was after the man from the southern district of
Nsanje granted interview to the media confessing to have slept with the
girls for a fee of between four and seven dollars paid by each of their
families.
"I order police to immediately arrest Mr Eric Aniva, investigate him and take him to court forthwith for defilement cases," Mutharika said in a statement.
This little-known local practice is performed in southern Malawi by
men known as "hyenas" at the behest of a girl's parents after her first
menstruation.
The ritual is believed to train girls to become good wives and to
protect them from disease, or misfortune could fall on their families or
their village. The man had confessed during a BBC interview that he is
HIV positive and sleeping with virgin girls without using protection.
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