The man’s lawyer, Mabu Marweshe, believes the case could go a long way in destigmatising a subject still widely considered taboo.
JOHANNESBURG - A Johannesburg man is challenging provisions of the Children's Act he says have the effect of unfairly saddling male victims of rape with parental responsibilities over children born as a result thereof.As it stands, the father of a child conceived as a result of the mother being raped is excluded therefrom. He says so too should the father of a child conceived as a result of his being raped, himself, be.
The woman ultimately fell pregnant, and the man says while he’s never met the child, and has no desire to “in light of the circumstances under which the child was conceived”, they are now locked in a legal battle over maintenance. He also said it infringed on the right to dignity and, by extension, family life, by imposing a “lifetime obligation” on a rape victim, and that it is not in the best interests of the child for parental rights to be assigned to him.
“This will really be impactful - positively so - in that it might even encourage men to open up and approach the police - if possible - where they have become victims of rape”.
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