Any teenager, any child, in fact anyone under the age of consent who has sex with an adult is being abused and is a victim of a criminal act.

But Ivelaw Whittaker, Public Relations and Press Officer of the Guyana Police Force clarified in a letter to the Guyana Chronicle (March 31, 2009) that a “ teenaged boy was not sexually molested but had engaged in sex with the homosexual.” The boy was 15 years old.

Apparently, in Guyana 15-old boys are mentally mature enough, they have their “own free will” to consent to being buggered by grown men; at least it is so in the eyes of certain high ranking police officers who do not see this as “sexual molestation.”

Mr. Whittaker says investigations are continuing. Who knows, maybe the police will find a 10-year old with “his own free will”.
JUSTIN DE FREITAS