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Kwame McCoy an embarrassment to Rights of the Child Commission
…must recuse self from that body if recording is him-Commissioner
Some members of the Rights of the Child Commission are of the opinion that should the recently surfaced tape recording between someone identified as Kwame McCoy and a 15-year-old named Julius turn out to be authentic, then McCoy should recuse himself from the Commission forthwith.
Kwame McCoy
According to one Commissioner who spoke to this newspaper on the condition of anonymity, should the recording prove to be that of Kwame McCoy then he is an embarrassment to that body which is to formulate ways and means of protecting children.
According to the Commissioner, this individual’s alleged sexual preference to young boys is counter to what the commission is all about.
Another commissioner, Sandra Hooper, when contacted said that should the recording be that of McCoy then she would not be comfortable working with him on that Commission.
Vidyaratta Kissoon, another commissioner, when contacted, said that at present it is just an allegation against McCoy and as such he would reserve any comment.
This was same position adopted by another commissioner, Marissa Massiah, who said that she would comment at an appropriate time.
The recording was made on September 9 after the 15 year-old boy had complained to his relatives about what he said was Kwame McCoy’s sexual advances towards him.
The relatives in turn sought help outside the family, hence the recording.
According to telephone records, the phone call was made on September 9 from 226-1832 to 223-7502 a direct line to Kwame McCoy at Office of the President.
The call started at 16:54:03 hrs and lasted for 20 billable minutes.
The mother of the 15-year-old schoolboy during a recorded telephone conversation is upset that the President has sexual predators working at Office of the President.
This newspaper visited the home of the young man’s mother who telephoned her son.
According to the woman, her only son confirmed that he was the person on the recording.
According to the woman, who is also single parent, when issues regarding high profile officials such as the McCoy incident are reported in the press, then people have to be fearful for their lives.
“I think the President should look into who he putting into position…He can’t be picking (sexual) predators…Look me child is a prey to he…I really, really mad about this.”
The visibly upset woman also lamented the fact that it made no sense complaining to the President because he would not take any action, “as usual.”
On Sunday evening, reporters listened in on a conversation between the 15-year-old (born August, 18, 1994) and his mother. They heard him admit that it was indeed his voice on the recording.
According to Julius, he met McCoy at the Conference Centre and he had told him that he wanted to open a youth group in Linden. He said that he collected McCoy’s phone number and from then they started conversations.
The boy told his mother that at one time he had told McCoy that he was traveling to Georgetown and that he would be staying by his aunt. He said that McCoy suggested that his friend owned Sleep-in and that he could stay there and not worry about any payments.
This fact came out in the recorded conversation. The hotel was not named.
The youth stated that he called McCoy at his office in the Presidential Complex and when his mother asked how he knew which number to call, the youth said that McCoy had called him from it several times before.
The youth told his mother that McCoy had given him money on more than one occasion. He said that McCoy also gave him a cellular phone.
He explained to his mother that he had rejected some calls from McCoy and when McCoy did make contact with him he told McCoy that his phone had a problem. This caused McCoy to give him a phone.
The youth told his mother that McCoy did tell him that having sex with a man was no different to having sex with a woman.
The recording of the controversial conversation is circulating on the internet and was first aired on the website www.guyanaobservernews.org run by Mark Benschop, Friday evening.
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