MATERO local court Magistrate Henry Mumba has castigated parents with the tendency of tolerating defilement cases happening in compounds for the love of money. And magistrate Mumba has expressed concern over the growing trend of teenagers indulging in early sex and early marriages while some are turning into junkies. Magistrate Mumba raised these concerns when he presided over a compensation for damage matter in which 38-year-old Diana Kabwe of George compound dragged 22-year-old Brian Chileshe, her neighbour, to court seeking compensation for disturbing the education of her 16-year-old grade 11 daughter after he took her for four months and eloped with her. Kabwe told the court that Chileshe took her daughter last August for two weeks at first and later...

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