S African lesbians becoming victims of barbaric ‘corrective rape’

Campaigners say that ten women are now assaulted every week by men,who claim to be curing their victims of homosexuality,the Daily Mail reported.

Among the most distressing was a woman whose 13-year-old twin daughters were raped because she was gay. One of the girls later committed suicide.

Siphokazi Mthathi,the South African director of Human Rights Watch,partly blames the crisis on deeply entrenched sexism in society.

Weve failed to make it understood that there is a price for rape, she told CNN.

There is still a strong sense among men that they have power over women,womens bodies and theres also a strong sense that theres not going to be consequences because most often there are no consequences, she added.