Defilement is really a
serious problem that Zambia is facing as a nation. According to the Zambian
Police service 2018 statistics, cases of child defilement occur at an average
rate of 6 defilement cases per day, one child is defiled every 4 hours (Zambian
eye,
2019). in this piece of writing, we will focus on the case of Daddly Fichite a
former Chipolopolo footballer and Zambian army staff sergeant who in 2014
defiled his niece aged 9 and infected her with syphilis and HIV. He was
convicted by the high court to 25 years in prison. He later appealed to the
supreme court denying committing the crime, the supreme court sentenced him to
life imprisonment. This stiff conviction was equitable.
On legal grounds, Daddly Fichte’s
actions were unlawful, he went against the supreme law of the land, the Zambia
constitution under the Penal Code, Chapter 87, and Section 138 sub-section 1
state that: “Any person who unlawfully and carnally knows a girl under the age
of sixteen years is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.”
The psychological and
sociological damaged to the young girl can never be measured. Most of the young
girls who go through sexual abuse or rather defilement often have the effect of
bringing to attention the fact that they are seen as a sex toy by others, they lose
self-esteem, self-confidence, enthusiasm all leading to Social withdrawal
resulting in poor academic performance.
The young girls’ future
is now negatively affected irrevocably. The once
healthy girl is now living with a potentially life-threatening condition, HIV has no cure yet, it causes
AIDS and AIDS interferes with the body's ability to fight infections leaving
the human body vulnerable to disease.
In the Zambian community
set up Daddly Fichtes’ case is sacrilegious. He was an uncle who filled a post of
trust which he broke, his crimes show how morally rotten he is to the core, and
why people like him are not needed in the community. His condemnation gives
effect to the denunciation of the defilement vice by the community.