Rape broadcast causes outrage in Bolivia

[Judi Lynn]

Rape broadcast causes outrage in Bolivia
Americas News

La Paz - The broadcast of a rape on a Bolivian television network caused outrage Wednesday in the Andean country.

'We have witnessed Tuesday the footage of a sexual act in which four young men rape a 13-year-old girl, and that is outrageous, indecent and unethical,' said Hernan Cabrera, head of the Press Federation of the southern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz.

Cabrera asked the authorities to prosecute the cameraman and the reporter who watched and filmed the rape without helping the victim.

'That is not how you do journalism. In the name of a scoop, of an exclusive, we are generating this kind of thing. A life is worth more than a scoop, it is a lot more valuable than an exclusive. Freedom of expression has its limits,' Cabrera stressed.

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