Tabuya should not have posted the half naked photo of a girl – AG

Attorney-General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says it has been brought to their attention that SODELPA MP Lynda Tabuya recently put up a post of a young girl who was naked from waist above getting some medical attention.

Sayed-Khaiyum said this while deliberating on the motion for Parliament to agree to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography.

Tabuya then raised a point of order and said the parent had given the consent and the child was being attended to at the Sai Prema Hospital for rheumatic heart disease.

She says the post was taken down after she spoke to the Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation and the parent.

In response, Sayed-Khaiyum says Tabuya should not have posted the photo of the girl.

While contributing to the motion, Tabuya says Fiji continues to rank high with searches for porn and this is why she will continue to advocate for Fiji to ban porn sites.

She says our children are getting more exposed to pornography.

Tabuya also shared a personal experience where her daughter was being asked by a man to share her photo with him.

Parliament has today unanimously agreed to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography.

Fiji signed the Optional Protocol in September 2005.

Optional Protocol requires State Parties to at a minimum, ensure that offences related to the sale of children, child prostitution, and child pornography are fully covered under its criminal law and to establish jurisdiction over such offences when the offences are committed in its territory or on board a ship or aircraft registered in that State.