# The DA says it remains deeply concerned that a national crisis of child pregnancies and statutory rape is not being addressed by the relevant actors in government. The party’s Angel Khanyile says statistics presented in Parliament during the past week showed that one-thousand-900 cases of statutory rape were abandoned by police and prosecutors since 2021. She says they will not accept that young girls are being raped and sexually abused in silence:
DA escalates child pregnancy failures of government to SAHRC [SOUND]
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