YAHOO reported that a Washington daycare worker is under arrest after the father of a 5-year-old girl walked in on the man raping his daughter, according to police.The report stated that, looking for his daughter, the father walked into a classroom at Kid’s Country childcare on 1st Avenue South in Normandy Park and found the 31-year-old male teacher with her, crouched behind a bookshelf, officials said.  The man allegedly told him that he was just having a “tickle fight” with the little girl, according to Q13 FOX.
Once they left, his daughter allegedly told her father that her teacher had touched her inappropriately, and he called Child Protective Services. After CPS workers interviewed the girl, who they described as bright and articulate, they went to talk to the teacher.
When asked to explain the allegations, the man allegedly admitted to touching her underneath her underwear, but said it was accidental.
The Kid’s Country employee is now in King County jail and awaiting the likely charge of first-degree child rape.
Incidences of this nature proliferate worldwide in every society and even developed countries like the USA has not been able to effectively deal with this scourge.
In Guyana laws have been enacted to protect the vulnerable in society, but most of these predators are protected – most often because of the fear and/or the age-inhibiting inability of the victims, the complicity of the mother because she herself is fearful of consequences, especially if the perpetrator, or the wish to protect the child molester from the mandatory jail terms for such offences.
What then could a society do to protect the innocents who are voiceless and absolutely vulnerable?
Education is the key. There is a dearth of information to the general public as to the measures persons should take if they suspect that a child – or anyone is being molested sexually, or abused in some way.
There ought to be an inundation of pertinent information that could guide the society in the rights and wrongs of certain actions and the steps members of the public could take to deal with such situations: Even if it is merely a suspicion it is always better to be safe rather than take the cautious route and a victim cannot find succor from horrendous circumstances and actions that colour their lives black.
Society needs to be au fait with the course of action open to the public for a holistic approach involving all stakeholders so that perpetrators of such heinous crimes become aware that there is zero tolerance for abusive and predatory actions because, in the words of national poet Martin Carter “All are involved.”