Voice of America: Mentally Ill Girls at Risk of Rape in South Africa

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Voice of America Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries

Mentally Ill Girls at Risk of Rape in South Africa Jul 4th 2013, 17:19, by webdesk@voanews.com (Darren Taylor) In a district in South Africa's impoverished Eastern Cape province, health care workers report that hardly anyone is ever arrested for raping the mentally disabled. But now a home in the region is sheltering some of these women and girls. The compound of mud huts is known as "Home of Peace." It's the only facility for hundreds of miles in this mountainous part of South Africa that rehabilitates people with mental disabilities Media files: 36A89C8C-3B24-4425-9BD8-2E3FE1643F9B_cx0_cy0_cw0_w800_r1.jpg (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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