African Parents And Students Disgusted At Test Question Asking Them To Stage The Rape Of A Baby!

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African School Poses Offense Test Question About The Rape of A Baby

Via NYDailyNews

In a country that that has one of the world’s highest rates of sexual violence, South Africans were angered by a drama school exam that asked 12th-graders how they would stage the rape of a baby using a loaf of bread and a broomstick.

Parents and students said they were repelled by the question. Rape counselors said the query was insensitive and inappropriate. Eureka Olivier, of the child rights advocacy group Bobbi Bear, said she was “absolutely disgusted.”

Author Lara Foot Newton, whose play “Baby Tshepang,” was the genesis of the drama question, called the exam entry “insensitive” and said, “It’s inappropriate for a drama student to have to answer that kind of question at that (grade) level,” the BBC reported Wednesday.

Her award-winning play was about the real-life rape of a 9-month-old baby by the mother’s boyfriend.

South Africa’s Education Department defended the exam, saying the question was solely intended to be symbolic, and to illustrate the country’s longstanding problem of rape and child molestation. One in four men admit to committing rape, according to the Medical Research Council of the South African Police Service.

“Nowhere is it expected of the candidate to have to literally describe the actual act of raping a 9-month-old baby,” the department said in a statement.

Regardless of how you slice it, it was still a pretty sick question to ask.