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Washroom abortion… Teen in protective care

Apr 12, 2009 News

The Child Care and Protection Unit of the Ministry of Social Services is currently monitoring the 14-year-old city student, who aborted a foetus in her school washroom last Friday.

Ministry officials stated that the child was recently released from the Georgetown Public Hospital and is with relatives.

The source further stated that the teen is also receiving psycho-social support and behavioral counseling which Ministry officials.

They hope that these approaches would bring about change within the teen’s life. She is required to attend meetings twice a week.

The source further told this newspaper that the teen would not be attending the same school, as part of an effort to prevent further embarrassment from her peers.

Last week Friday, the 14-year-old aborted in the school toilet, and then discarded the foetus into the school garbage bin.

According to information reaching this newspaper, the student who is in the Third Form, went into the washroom and delivered the baby on the floor.

The source further told Kaieteur News that after the teen delivered the foetus, she then wrapped it in paper and threw it into the garbage bin.

The young girl then proceeded back into her classroom and pretended as though nothing happened.

However both teachers and students noticed her clutching her stomach and crying out in pain. Relatives of the teen were summoned and they took her to the hospital.

When relatives arrived at the school they told school officials that the child would leave home and return days later without any proper explanation for her whereabouts.

A source from the hospital told this newspaper that the teen was just about to finish her first trimester. The nurses opined that that the child may have ingested an illegal drug, which caused her to miscarry the baby.

“She had to drink one of those cheap abortion pills to induce labour.” They said that pharmacists should be locked up when things like this happen.

The nurses further said that even if the teen didn’t buy the “pills” someone older may have given it to her and that person should also be locked up.

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