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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important Statement by Sen. Nyamunga. I also want to congratulate her for highlighting this issue. This is a national shame. As we sit here and give suggestions on having special police officers, we should have in mind that there are people who do not want to go to the police because these issues are very personal. Therefore, as a House, we may want to look at other ways in which we could support our children without taking them to the police. In 2016, there were 6,000 cases that were reported as child defilement in the courts. In 2014 or thereabout, there were 7,000 cases yet these are just the few reported cases for there are so many other cases that are not reported because of the nature of these things. As the Senators ahead of me have said, this issue is more of a crime and it should actually attract worse punishment yet the punishment does not seem to work. There is a judge who recently revised the judgment where a school teacher by the name Khaemba was accused of defiling a child. He increased the number of years that had been given in a lower court from 30 years in jail to life imprisonment. He said that the duration given was too little. I would like to congratulate that judge though I do not know his name."
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