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Manickchand says community should rescue children from abuse
Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand-Murli, yesterday called on members of the community to take action and rescue children from abuse, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.
Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand-Murli looks on as children participate in painting signs on Main Street, Georgetown to mark the end of Child Protection Week.
She was speaking at an event in Georgetown to mark the end of Child Protection Week, which was held under the theme “Caring Communities Raise Caring Children.”
Mrs Manickchand-Murli has refused to comment on tape recordings implicating an individual identified as Kwame soliciting sexual favours from a 15-year-old boy.
She had said that she had not heard the tape, which has been played on national TV and on the internet. On Thursday, activist Mark Benschop played the tape through a music-cart outside of the Minister’s Georgetown office.
The recording was made public two weeks ago after a complaint was lodged to Benschop. A 15-year-old teenager reportedly said that the government official had made sexual invitations to him.
In the recorded phone conversation, an individual identified as Kwame told the teenager whose name is given as “Julius” that having sex with a man is just like having sex with a woman.
Earlier this week, Press Liaison to the President, Kwame McCoy, went to the court and secured an injunction against Kaieteur News, Prime News and Enrico Woolfood of Capitol News directing that they refrain from further publishing words or images that have the effect of insinuating or suggesting that Kwame McCoy is involved in acts of child molestation and sexual predation on minors until the determination of a summons to continue injunction.
McCoy is also seeking damages in excess of $50M from each of the named defendants for what he calls libel. The matter is returnable tomorrow.
More than 120 countries are said to observe Child Protection Week annually and was initiated in 2004 to raise awareness.
Every year the focus is on raising the profile of child abuse and getting more persons involved.
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