PNG parents pushing children to beg
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Needy parents in Papua New Guinea are reportedly encouraging their children to beg on the streets.
It comes weeks after the government approved new child protection legislation.
Recently PNG's local media repported the case of a woman letting her five year daughter beg for money in the streets of Port Moresby.
When asked by passersby where her parents were, she pointed to a women under a tree.
The women was told to take her home and look after her family.
PNG's only female MP, Community Development Minister, Dame Carol Kidu says it is against the law to encourage children to beg.
'It is wrong to have a child sitting in the street and the mother hiding up in the corner while the child begs for money," she said.
"It is wrong and must do every thing we can to tell the parents it is wrong, if you do it the second time you will be arrrested''.
She says its the parents responsiblity to look after their children.
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