Media Monitoring Africa notes with concern the sensationalising and trivialising (apparently for purely entertainment purposes) of gender based violence in your May 23 article “Hands of stone’ socks baby mama”.

Editor’s response:

Sunday World views the abuse of women and children in a serious light. We concede that our approach to the story could have created the impression that we do not. It definitely was not our intention to trivialise the issue, and we sincerely regret it if such an impression was created. – Editor

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