{"id":8793,"date":"2014-03-26T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T11:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=8793"},"modified":"2014-03-26T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T11:20:45","slug":"zimbabwe-court-orders-compensation-for-rape-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=8793","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe court orders compensation for rape victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/73807549_zimbabwe_harare_07122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8794\" alt=\"_73807549_zimbabwe_harare_0712(2)\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/73807549_zimbabwe_harare_07122.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/73807549_zimbabwe_harare_07122.jpg 304w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/73807549_zimbabwe_harare_07122-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a>Zimbabwe&#8217;s top court has ordered the state to pay compensation to a rape victim who was denied an abortion after she was attacked eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The court criticised police and medical workers for delays in helping the woman seek a termination of her pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion is illegal in Zimbabwe, but may be permitted where the pregnancy is a result of rape or where it poses a threat to the woman&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>The woman&#8217;s eight-year-old child is now going to school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Thrown out&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court was scathing in its judgment, reports the BBC&#8217;s Brian Hungwe from the capital, Harare.<\/p>\n<p>It ruled that the mental anguish from the pregnancy was foreseeable and doctors should have recommended emergency contraception &#8211; the so-called &#8220;morning-after pill&#8221; &#8211; within three days of the rape in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors instead referred the matter back to the police, contributing to delays which meant it was eventually too late to terminate the pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court referred the case to another court to determine the sum to be awarded in damages.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was also seeking $42,000 (\u00a325,000) in compensation to cover the costs of raising the child, but that claim was thrown out, the AFP news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling was welcomed by the Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association, which initiated the litigation on behalf of the woman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s top court has ordered the state to pay compensation to a rape victim who was denied an abortion after she was attacked eight years ago. The court criticised police and medical workers for delays in helping the woman seek a termination of her pregnancy. Abortion is illegal in Zimbabwe, but may be permitted where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-8793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}