Patricia Kaliati (pictured) is a Malawian lawmaker and President Bingu wa Mutharika’s Minister of Women and Child Development. She has a reputation for having no filter, running her mouth when others are wise enough to keep quiet. Her latest bout of ineptitude? Banishing 42-year-old businesswoman Nellie Somanje from her home — because she’s supposedly lesbian.
“Yes, Somanje is persona non grata here,” Kaliati tells a reporter. “She must leave the area in order to protect vulnerable girls here.” Enter a bizarre set of circumstances.
Somanje’s suspected lesbianism came to light when she was arrested in November last year after two girls in her employ – aged 14 and 15 – complained that their boss was forcefully having sex with them.
She was charged with gross indecency, a felony that can attract up to 14 years in jail. She was immediately released on bail.
However, during trial, Somanje denied the charges, telling presiding Mulanje Second Grade Magistrate Lameck Mkwapatira that the two girls voluntarily asked her to be applying caster oil – locally known as nsatsi – on their private parts which traditionalists believe improves a woman’s sexual vitality and prowess.
“I used to apply on them the caster oil twice daily at their request,” she told the court.
Mkwapatira agreed with her that the act was indeed consensual and acquitted the businesswoman, citing the lack of evidence from the state to prove that Somanje was a lesbian or was indeed forcefully having carnal knowledge of the two girls.
“In the absence of a medical report to prove the sexual acts, this court is compelled to acquit the accused,” read court records reported widely in Malawi’s press Thursday.
But the ruling did not go down well with Kaliati who proceeded to order the expulsion of Somanje from her area.
In the U.S., an adult woman who is not a doctor applying oil to the private parts of two minor women would be a criminal offense. But in Malawi, the more serious charge is Somanje’s alleged homosexuality. And Kaliati remains furious with the court ruling, which she says sends the wrong signal to the current prosecution of the engaged gay couple.
Q
Did Fruit of the Loom add a Tomato to their line up?
In all seriousness – this is crazy. “Alleged” homosexuality causes banishment? What, are we in the 14th Century?
FakeName
Queerty sez: In the U.S., an adult woman who is not a doctor applying oil to the private parts of two minor women would be a criminal offense.
I beg you, please stop talking about the law, a subject of which you clearly have no understanding. Generally speaking, for genital contact to be a crime, it needs to be for the purpose of sexual gratification. No sexual gratification, no crime. So if an adult in the United States was applying oil to the genitals of minors for a purpose other than sexual gratification it would not be illegal.
Same Crap
In certain cultures, it’s customary to oil up babies to give them smooth, soft skin. Heck, even Johnson & Johnson makes an oil for just that.
If a parent (not a doc) applies oil on his or her own child and on the genitals, the parent would be charged with criminal offense???
dontblamemeivotedforhillary
This is a paraphilia which is a mental disorder as with Pedophilia, not lesbianism!
“Ephebophilia is the adult sexual preference for mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19. The term was originally used in the late 19th to mid 20th century, and has been more recently revived by Ray Blanchard.”
“Ephebophilia strictly denotes the preference for mid-to-late adolescent sexual partners, not the mere presence of some level of sexual attraction. In sexual ethics, it may be defined as a sexual preference for girls generally 14–16 years old, and boys generally 14–19 years old. It is one of a number of sexual preferences across age groups subsumed under the neologism of “chronophilia”.”
“In research environments, specific terms are used for chronophilias: ephebophilia to refer to the sexual preference for mid-to-late adolescents, hebephilia to refer to the sexual preference for earlier pubescent individuals, and pedophilia to refer to the sexual preference for prepubescent children.[4] However, the term pedophilia has commonly been used to refer to any sexual interest in minors below the legal age of consent, regardless of their level of physical, mental, or psychological development. Clinically, ephebophilia is not considered a mental disorder unless it affects the ephebophile’s life in a destructive way. Acting upon ephebophilic preference can be illegal, for example, when the adolescent is below the legal age of consent.”
Source: Wikipedia
MY NOTE: The continent of Africa which has always struggled with emerging from Third and Fourth World Conditions at various levels is gripped by Religious Puritanical Guilt which is contrary to their more indigenous rites and beliefs and the often Colliding Effect. The struggles will get much worse and religious and/or ethnic wars are already present in Sudan and Nigeria and spilling over into neighboring countries. Education, Health and Economic Empowerment and Self-Sufficiency free of Religious Dogma will be their way forward as women, children, the disabled and same-sex lovers are frequent targets of violence.
Devon
So she’s like a hate-filled Strawberry Shortcake…