Daughter, 18, cuts off her father's head after he raped herin their Papua New Guinea village home

A teenage girl chopped her father's head clean off with a bush knife
after he raped her in their home in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Now residents of the village have formed a protective ring around the
18-year-old, refusing to hand her over to the police because they
agreed her 'evil' father deserved to die.
A local church leader, Pastor Lucas Kumi from the village of Rang in
the Western Highlands, said the entire community would refuse to allow
the girl to be subjected to any official investigation.
Protective ring: Villagers in the remote western highlands of Papua
New Guinea say they will not let police talk to the 18 year old rape
victim (file image)
'The people and leaders in our area went and saw the headless body of
thefather after the girl reported the incident to them and explained
why she had killed her father,' said Pastor Kumi.
He told the Post Courier newspaper that the father, in his mid-40s,
raped his daughter when they were alone in their house after the
mother and two other children from the family went to visit relatives
for the night.
'The father went to his daughter's room in the night and raped her repeatedly.
'The father wanted to rape his daughter again in the morning and that
was when the young girl picked up the bush knife and chopped her
father's head off,' said Pastor Kumi.
'We've all agreed that she is free to stay in the community because
the father deserved to die.
'The daughter did what she did because of the trauma and the evil
actions of her father, so that is why wehave all agreed that she
remains in thecommunity.'
He said a ring of protection had been placed around the girl, who will
be kept away from any official investigation.
Death penalty: the government of Papua New Guinea has brought back the
death penalty in order to combat serious crimes
'The community have also agreed not to conduct any formal burial
service for the father.'
Crimes of rape, murder, suspected witch killings and prostitution are
rife throughout Papua New Guinea and as a desperate attempt to stop
the lawlessness the government recently re-introduced the death
penalty for serious offences.
But at the weekend the Post Courier reported the results of an
investigationinto child prostitution, a report, it said, that will
'make you cringe.'
Children aged between 13 and 16, saidthe paper, were selling sex in
the nightclubs of the capital, Port Moresby,five premises being
reported to be engaged in the under-age prostitution trade.
Three non-government organisations have produced a report based on
interviews with no less than 175 child sex workers.
'It's true - our girls, and especial school girls, are being bought
and soldfor sex,' said one of the investigators.