{"id":270053,"date":"2016-11-20T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=270053"},"modified":"2016-11-20T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T11:00:05","slug":"malawian-hyena-man-guilty-of-ritual-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/malawian-hyena-man-guilty-of-ritual-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawian ‘hyena man’ guilty of ritual sex"},"content":{"rendered":"
An HIV-positive Malawian man has been found guilty for having unprotected sex with newly bereaved widows.<\/p>\n
The practice of “widow cleansing”, when a widow must have sex after her husband dies, was outlawed a few years ago.<\/p>\n
Eric Aniva, a sex worker known in Malawi as a “hyena”, admitted in a BBC interview to having sex with more than 100 women and underage girls and not disclosing his HIV status.<\/p>\n
This led to the president ordering his arrest in July.<\/p>\n
President Peter Mutharika had wanted Aniva tried for defiling young girls, but none came forward to testify against him.<\/p>\n
Instead Aniva was tried for “harmful cultural practice” under section five of Malawi’s Gender Equality Act for having sex with new widows.<\/p>\n
Two women testified against him.<\/p>\n
He will be sentenced on 22 November 2016.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s southern Africa correspondent Karen Allen says the case has attracted international media attention and sharply divided opinion as to how widespread the practice remains.<\/p>\n
Aniva was the subject of a BBC feature into various sexual cleansing practices in Malawi.<\/p>\n
In some remote southern regions of the country it is traditional for girls to be made to have sex with a man after their first menstruation.<\/p>\n
Last year Malawi banned child marriage, raising the legal age of marriage from 15 to 18 – something activists hoped would put an end to early sexual initiations.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An HIV-positive Malawian man has been found guilty for having unprotected sex with newly bereaved widows. The practice of “widow cleansing”, when a widow must have sex after her husband dies, was outlawed a few years ago. Eric Aniva, a sex worker known in Malawi as a “hyena”, admitted in a BBC interview to having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":270058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[3,13767],"yoast_head":"\n