THIS was the slogan I noticed on a wall as, recently, the driver took a route through Albouystown to take me to my destination. This is a serious warning in Albouystown, and perpetrators can expect no mercy in that community, because many times the justice system abysmally fails the victims.
Indeed, there should be no bail for child molesters. However, for whatever reason, incidents of child molestation and rape are increasing rather than decreasing because of the laxity of law enforcement officials, despite the severe and punitive legislation recently enacted through the militancy of Human Services and Social Security Minister, Priya Manickchand. A case in point concerns the abduction, rape, and sodomy of eleven-year-old Monica, and the abduction and suspected rape – and maybe worse, of her 15-year-old aunt, Joan. Names have been changed to protect the identity of the minors.
At Kuru-Kuru on the fifteenth of November last, the two young girls went for a walk in their neighbourhood. They were abducted by one ‘Harry’ who was driving a truck. Harry picked up a friend on the way and dropped him and eleven-year-old Monica off at the Alpha Hotel in South Road, where the latter booked a room to which he took the frightened little girl. A medical examination would prove that she was raped and sodomized.
When the perpetrator, 35-year-old Ramkissoon, was finished with the child he left her alone, miles away from her home and family in Kuru Kuru, and went away. The receptionist had no credit to facilitate the fatherless Monica with a call to her frantic single mother, so she had to stay in the hotel’s waiting area until morning, when a kind person allowed her a call, after which her mother took her from the hotel directly to the Brickdam Police Station to lodge a complaint. The mother of the fifteen-year-old had also filed a report.
The police sent Monica for a medical examination two days after constant running by the mother – a poor woman who found it difficult to raise the return fare from Kuru Kuru each time she had to travel to the city. 
As aforementioned, the examination proved that the pre-teen girl had been raped and sodomized. Although the police knew where to find both perpetrators, they never picked up Harry until the intervention of a high-profile political activist. Yet, although the fifteen-year-old (‘Joan’) has not yet been found, so many months after, there is no report of any charge being laid against him; although he was also complicit in and had facilitated the abduction, rape and sodomy of Monica, as well as the abduction – and maybe worse, of Joan.
Ramkissoon was eventually picked up by the police, after much running to Brickdam by the two mothers. However, he was released two days after. Again, after the intervention of the political/social activist, he was charged, only to be sent away on a $20,000 bail. 
This newspaper unsuccessfully tried to make contact with the two police ranks that the mother made the report to, whom she can only identify as Thomas and Gravesande, and it is uncertain whether either Harry or Ramkissoon will ever be made to suffer any consequences of their actions. What is frightening is that this may not be the first time they have committed such offences, with impunity, because the rural areas proliferate with young girls who can be lured away from their homes, only to suffer similar fate as Monica and Joan.
The law enforcement and justice systems are failing such victims, and a primary case that comes to mind is one in which a young girl was drugged, taken to a house, and had all sorts of atrocities committed on her before being locked in by the high-profile perpetrator and his girlfriend. The naked victim climbed through a window where she hung precariously before being spotted by a passer-by and was rescued. What ensued was a highly-publicized case of abduction, rape, and sodomy.
To my horror, mere months after, that perpetrator, who has a very powerful father and is distinguishable in public on his own account, was hosting public events and is walking free to this day.
One wonders if Joan will ever be found, or if the authorities even care about the anguish and grave distress of the victims and their families; because in the instances related above, as happens as a norm rather than an exception, the law enforcers seem not to care about the poor, powerless, voiceless and vulnerable.  The powerful and monied can easily purchase and subvert justice in this country; and the jail proliferates with many innocent victims while many real criminals walk the streets, free to continue the depredations on the real victims of society.
Recently, within a week, at least two cases of student molestation by teachers have surfaced in the media, but this is only the tip of the iceberg, and there have been many cases where teachers who have been accused are allowed to remain on the job without the requisite protective mechanisms being put in place to ensure the safety of students.
In the Corentyne, a teenager who was raped in her kitchen by her adult neighbour took her own life because the perpetrator was allowed freedom and continued to harass her, while other villagers either taunted or shunned her.
Fathers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers, other relatives and friends, teachers, public officials, and strangers rape, fondle, sodomize the innocents in society and get off either scot-free, or with a figurative tap on the wrist by members of the justice (sic!) system.
There was a recent case of sisters in a village who had been habitually abused by several members of their community, with full knowledge of the entire community, who merely saw the girls as discardable trash. These children were so damaged from being raped by adult males from very tender ages that doctors said that they would never be able to conceive, because damages to their reproductive organs were extensive and irreparable.
The incidents are spiralling, and in yesterday’s papers there were reported no less than seven cases of child abuses, perpetrators of three were teachers, two were fathers, one a taxi driver, and one a landlord.
Two of the teachers were remanded, while the other was placed on station bail, the taxi driver and landlord are in custody pending police investigations (sic!), and the father of the son and daughter whom he raped and sodomized has been remanded.
Yesterday’s newspapers also reported on the case of rapist Kenston Drakes, where an all-male jury found him guilty, after which Justice Franklyn Holder sentenced him to 16 years in prison.
Kudos to Justice Holder, also magistrate Roby Benn who remanded Ronald Forde to prison, and magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin who remanded the father who raped and sodomized his own children to prison; and shame on the magistrate who let the Saraswat Primary School child molester go.
The emotional, psychological, and physical damage caused the victims of these perpetrators is irreparable, such as in the instance of the baby boy whose digestive tract was destroyed by a father who sodomized him while the child was left in his care, which is another of a plethora of incidents where rapacious beasts ravage the innocence and lives of the society’s children.
But it is not the law-enforcement agencies that are failing the children of the land. It is the members of communities who witness the unspeakable acts and stay quiet, preferring to mind their own business and not make waves.
Director of Child Protection Services, Ms Ann Green, has told Chronicle in an invited comment that the agency is absolutely frustrated with the response and the level of slothfulness on the part of the Police Force in dealing with cases of this nature, as well as the latitude allowed the perpetrators in the judicial process, despite the revised Sexual Offences Act.
Ms Green has indicated that she is seeking an audience with Commissioner of Police, Mr. Henry Greene, to seek ways of strengthening the facilitating and implementation mechanisms so that the laws are brought into full effect against child molesters, especially in relation to placing such perpetrators on bail.
Chronicle seems to be a lone voice crying in the wilderness for the President’s and Human Services Minister’s efforts not to go to waste, and that the facilitating and implementation mechanisms for all the systems and programmes that they have driven to protect the nation’s children from predators in the society be enforced by the conjunctive sectors, especially the security and judicial forces.  Only a holistic approach could reduce, if not completely eradicate, this particularly heinous scourge from society.