A man who earns a living in Malawi by being paid to sleep with underage girls in a cultural sexual cleansing has been arrested.
Eric Aniva was interviewed by BBC and confessed having robbed more than a hundred underage girls their virginity.
Aniva might also have infected the innocent girls with the HIV virus after he confessed he tested positive to the virus.
The cultural ritual directs that a family pays a man to sleep with their daughter to ensure no bad omen visits the family.
Aniva said such men are called hyenas.
He said most parents request their gilr’s cleansing after her first menstrual experience.
President Peter Mutharika ordered the ‘hyena’ be arrested.
Aniva should "be investigated for exposing the young girls to contracting HIV and further be charged accordingly," Mutharika was quoted.