The Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion is currently in consultation with the Ministry of Justice and other stakeholders regarding the viability of having all suspects accused of rape and defilement tried on the scene of crime.
Minister for Gender and Family Promotion, Jeannette Bayisenge disclosed to the media saying that this is one of the measures to discourage the abhorrent crime.
“We are working with different stakeholders, notably the judicial sector, so that rape and defilement trials can be conducted at the crime scene and in public to make sure it leaves a lesson to anyone who may attempts to do it,” she commented.
She added that implementing it will require extensive study that might take time to make sure all the rights of the suspects and those of the victims are fully adhered to.
“We are still liaising with the judicial sector so that the process can be conducted through legally-accepted procedures, in line with the Rwandan criminal procedures,” she added.
Precedence
Some cases of public interest have previously been conducted on the scene of crime including one held in March 2020, a torture case that trended on social media involving a group of friends who conspired to assault and torture their colleague.
The case was publicly heard so as to leave a lesson to the youth, as judges stated that time.
