IGNORE RAPE CASES & SPEND TWO YEARS IN PRISON, AMBODE TELLS TEACHERS, NURSES AND SOCIAL WORKERS

 It has become a criminal offence for any worker in the employment of the Lagos State government, who has a direct dealing with children, not to report any case of rape to the appropriate authorities.

The coordinator of the Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team created by the Lagos State government, Titilola Adeniyi-Vivour, said any of such mandated reporters who failed in this duty, risked being jailed for two years.

Vivour-Adeniyi made this disclosure yesterday during a courtesy visit by DSVRT to The Punch Place.

According to her, those captured in the mandated reporters group include school teachers, nurses, social workers among others. she however said there was an ongoing effort by DSVRT to see that this executive order made in 2014 was passed into law so that more people could be captured under it.

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