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Sexually molested toddler placed into foster care

Sep 17, 2008 News

The three-year-old boy who was allegedly sexually assaulted by his policeman father is now in foster care.
The decision was taken to place the child in a home following revelations that he continues to be abused.
Kaieteur News understands that probation and welfare officials have intervened in the matter, which appears to be at a standstill.
While police say a file on the matter has already been prepared and sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for advice, the father of the child has been urging the speeding up of the investigations.
The police had said that the file was delayed due to the absence of a statement from the child’s mother.
The child’s father, who was placed under close arrest, was subsequently released.
The story broke following shocking revelations by the child’s mother, with whom the infant was left by his father to spend the August holidays.
She had told this newspaper that, when she collected the child, she first observed that there was nail polish on his finger nails, but did not take it for anything sinister.
When the child was fed, the woman observed, he was constantly passing faeces, although he had no medical problem.
The woman said that she became angry at having to clean up every time the boy messed up.
Curiosity got the better of her, and she decided to check the child’s anus, and got the shock of her life.
“It was unusually larger than a normal three-year-old’s,” the woman told this newspaper. When she questioned the child, even more shocking details were revealed.
The child related that his father would normally finger his anus.
“He said that his daddy would put him to sit on his belly,” the woman told this newspaper.
The child was eventually taken to the hospital, where he was medically examined and it was confirmed that he was indeed sexually molested.
But the father of the child has denied the accusation.
According to the policeman, most of the allegations levelled against him by the child’s mother are untrue, and this has caused him significant embarrassment.
According to the cop, when school closed for the August holidays, he decided to send his son to spend some time with his mother and her husband in Sophia.
He said that he eventually contacted the child’s mother and made an appointment to see him, after she informed him that the child was not well.
He said that it was only when he got to the home of the child’s mother that he was informed that his son had been sexually molested and had suffered internal damage.
“I was shocked because, for the time that my son was with me, he never showed such signs. I got scared, because I said that he is a child and he can’t speak for himself. It’s a total lie, the child is now learning to talk, now saying mommy and daddy.”
The cop said that he disclosed to the child’s mother that the only two persons the child was ever left with alone were his present wife and his mother.
He said that the publication of the article, ‘cop under arrest for sexually molesting three-year-old son’ has caused him anguish, and he assured that he is not being treated as a policeman in the matter.
“I don’t want the public to feel that because I am a policeman I am being given a chance to get away with something like this,”
While he claims he is not pointing fingers at anyone, he believes that whatever happened to his child occurred while he was at his mother’s house.
Kaieteur News understands that the child’s parents, along with some concerned citizens, are scheduled to meet with officials of the police Juvenile Department later this week.
There are also plans to protest the sloth of the investigations.

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