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Corporal punishment abolished

GWERU – Magistrates around the country have been ordered to stop giving juvenile rape offenders corporal punishment regardless of gender as it has been abolished in the new Constitution, a top magistrate has said. Corporal punishment, commonly known as canning, is a sentence delivered on minors who lawfully cannot serve jail time. It was skewed…

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