Police yesterday stormed a house along Lake Road in Woodlands and stopped a wild sex party involving over 70 children between the ages of 13 and 18.
Police Spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo confirmed this in an interview with News Diggers! saying the owner of the house had not yet been identified.
“There is a house in the [Woodlands] neighborhood which young boys and girls use for illicit immoral acts,” Katongo said.
“Yesterday a report was received from a concerned citizen and about 70 of them were rounded up by police and picked. They were locked up but the detention facility was not enough to accommodate all of them.”
She said the children admitted the charge and paid admission of guilt.
“They were then charged with conduct likely to cause a breach of peace after which they paid admission of guilt and they were released,” said Katongo.
“Police are looking for the owner of the house. This happened between 17:00 hours and 18:00 hours. Some bottles of beer and used condoms were found at the same premises.”
Meanwhile a witness told News Diggers! that the children were over 100.
“They could have been hundred or two hundred. They were a lot of them, it seems some ran away. After they were all picked up, some parents flocked to Woodlands police to bail them out in the evening yesterday. I am sure some are still there as we speak because their parents didn’t even know.”
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Hmmm so it’s illegal to have sex, drink alcohol? O_o Sometimes I think the law is just a farce… Same officers will tell you to pay for their transport when you call to report a robbery but they have energy to waste government resources on kids in their hormones lacking parental supervision. SMH 🙂 if it really even happened
This is unacceptable, it’s a shame to our country. Our culture has been lost. Parents should keep there eyes on these kids.
Good job girl,you’re doing good p
Am sure you are just a boy
Interesting to note how everyone rushes in with moral condemnation of young people having sex when it is not a crime per se. I wonder how even a very large sex party is likely to cause of the peace; with moral ‘crimes’ the breach is often not by the people involved but by those seeking to prevent or shut down.
However, the really worrying part is that no-one is disturbed by the ages involved. Anyone over the age of consent is fine. But if children as young as 13 were there then serious crimes may have been committed.
Have the police investigated whether statutory rape occurred? Are they providing any sort of support to those who were underage or are they being the usual ZP? I know the issue of men having sex with children is not something we like to address in Zambia but the way this seems to have been handled, though I hope to be corrected, follows the usual pattern: it isn’t seen as a problem, the victims are criminalised and the perpetrators walk. ZP needs to provide answers. ZP needs to investigate in order to comply with its mandate.