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May 02, 2015 News

…aunt wants rapist prosecuted
Norma James, the aunt of the 13-year-old Wakapoa teenager, who gave birth just over three weeks ago to premature twin babies, wants the man who impregnated her niece to be prosecuted.
James said that ever since her niece revealed the name of the man who raped her to the family, the girl’s older sister has since distanced herself from the family. She said phone calls to this older sister who lives at Timehri go unanswered.
The man who was fingered in impregnating James’ niece was an occupant of the house in which the older sister lives. James said she has since lodged a report on the allegations made by her niece with the police at the Charity Outpost.
An officer of that Outpost has since informed James that the report has been forwarded to the Timehri police.
The teenager is currently at the Suddie Public Hospital with her babies who were born prematurely and are in an incubator. They are being fed from a tube.
James, 50, said that she would have to shoulder the responsibility of taking care of her niece and her twin babies whenever she is discharged from the hospital. She, however, would like her niece to continue her education at the Wakapoa Secondary School, since she said she was doing well in School.
The teenager was left in James’ care for almost five years, after her mother  along with her husband and Henry’s brother-in-law, Trevor Abrams, were all charged with the murder of 54-year-old Wilfred  Williams, a/k”Willo”, of Grant Friendship Canal. The trio is currently on remand awaiting trial.
James explained that she was only made aware of her niece’s pregnancy when the child was seven months. According to James, her niece was visiting her older sister, at Timehri last July and during February she noticed that the teenager’s stomach was unusually large. She said that she proceeded to question her.
James said that she immediately called the Deputy Toshao who then questioned the teenager. That was how she learnt of the pregnancy. The Headmaster of the Secondary School was also informed as well as a Welfare Officer.
James said that she was told that the older sister’s brother-in-law had raped her niece. She noted that she accompanied her niece to the Health Center, at Wakapoa where she was registered and attended clinics.
“I used to buy sanitary pads every month for this girl but she used to hide them.” The 13-year-old is the last child of eight children for Josephine and Frankie Henry.

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