Reports suggest stepfather first raped her at age nine

THE Police and the Child Care and Protection Agency of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security continue to investigate the incidents surrounding the impregnating of an interior-based 12-year-old girl.

The Guyana Chronicle yesterday was told that the two organisations are also investigating reports by the child’s grandfather that the stepfather was reportedly molesting her since she was nine years old.
The child who has not yet delivered her baby remains in the protective care of the Ministry of Human Services even as the police continue to question persons surrounding the incident.
This publication reported yesterday that the police had completed questioning two persons, including the stepfather, who are fingered in the rape of the child and are seeking to question at least two others.
Child Care Director Ann Green yesterday told the Guyana Chronicle that the child will deliver her baby soon, even as Crime Chief Leslie James confirmed that the police are still receiving statements in the matter.
Last week Green was very upset after the news of the girl’s pregnancy reached the agency and she reminded that what had happened to the child was unfortunate and a crime.
She said that no person should rape a child and no person who rapes a child should be allowed to walk away with impunity.
The 12-year-old was found to be pregnant when she returned to her interior location home after visiting a Georgetown home. She told officials of the child care agency that she was molested by her stepfather but the police had soon after indicated to this publication that she was not sticking to her initial story.
Meanwhile, in a separate case businessman Chandra Narine Sharma’s rape case has been set for the October sessions. He will be on trial after being accused of raping a 13-year-old girl back in 2010. The matter has been in the court for several years now.
He was one of the persons to be charged under the revised Sexual Offences Act which was assented to by former President Bharrat Jagdeo months before he demitted office.

(By Leroy Smith)