Video: Kafui Danku, Sandra Ankobiah and Miss Ghana join #justiceforkids campaign

Some female celebrities have joined the campaign to seek justice for children who have been sexually molested.

Actress cum producer, Kafui Danku; legal practitioner and socialite, Sandra Ankobiah; Miss Ghana 2017, Margaret Mwintuur Dery, and her two runner-ups, Priscilla and Marigold are calling for sensitization of young children on their sexual health.

These calls come on the heels of JoyNews’ Maxwell Agbagba’s story that highlighted the rampant cases of defilement and rape in the Assin area of the Central region.

Kafui Danku, who intends to educate children and their parents across the country under the (Sexual Health Education) ‘SHE’ initiative told JoyNews’ MzGee, the issues of sexual molestation must be tackled from the grassroots.

“I was with a group of girls, about five of them, all of them had been raped before at very tender ages, most of them before 15. When I said I had not been raped before they said it was a lie.

"It is something I want my colleagues and I to come together go from village to village, across all the ten regions to educate the people as young as four and even their mothers,” she said.

Socialite Sandra Ankobiah, who visited and donated food items and toiletries to the four-year-old victim and her family at Assin Adadientem in the Central Region, said justice must be served.

“We can start from reporting these cases. We need to create this awareness, that education that these cases need to be reported.

"When you go to the hinterlands, you find out that many of these cases are not reported or they are settled at home and that’s not right. They should be recorded so the law can take its cause,” she said.

On her part, Miss Ghana 2017, Margaret Mwintuur Dery citing the case of the four-year-old victim as an example appealed that cases of such nature should be handled devoid of traditional ruling.

“First of all I would like to say rape is an appalling thing, it is disgusting that it is still in our society and some people will also defend those who do it. I will like to say that we should prevent traditional ruling in cases as these,” she urged.

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