Manickchand’s statement is terrifying - AFC leader

Manickchand’s statement is terrifying – AFC leader

Oct 15, 2009 News

Leader of the Alliance for Change, Raphael Trotman, yesterday told members of the media that the laws must be put into place to protect our children.
The statement came after Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand, said that there was no law in which a person could be charged for soliciting sex.
Trotman said that if the Minister feels that way that should have been the first thing on the order paper today as Parliament commences.
The opposition leader said that statement by the Minister is “very terrifying”.
He said that they might not be a law to charge someone for soliciting sex, but they are statutory laws which a case can be made of.
He said that if persons see a wrong they find a way to fix it.
He explained that anyone can go around molesting children and nothing can be done. Trotman said that the Minister should have stated what she intends to do about the entire situation.
He also stated that Minister Manickchand should be trying to recommend laws which protect children because it’s her obligation.
Trotman said that persons could send and engage in lewd conversations with minors and nothing can be done because the law does not protect children.
He said that it is a dangerous pattern which is erupting in Guyana that is turning a blind eye to certain things in Guyana.
He noted that persons can engage in sexual conversations with children and laugh because the persons in authority feel that nothing can be done about it. He said there are murders, disappearances, Lindo Creek and so many other issues and the police claim that they are waiting for the evidence.
Trotman said that days of the police going out and investigating the matter, but they have now opted for the public to bring the information and even when that is done it clearly isn’t enough.
He urged the Minister to get about and protect the children of Guyana and not try to shield anyone.
He also noted that if the Ministry does not protect children, persons are going to take matters into their own hands, which can lead to anarchy.
He added that a legal system must function and if there is a vacuum one must try to fix it.
Moreover he said that the entire Kwame/Julius saga should have been dealt with in a better manner.
He said that Mc Coy should have been sent on leave pending investigation instead of Mc Coy taking leave.
He posited that if the government refuses to properly investigate the matter it would be another nail in their coffin.
Meanwhile social activist Mark Benschop plans to file criminal charges against Mc Coy claiming that the Criminal Offences Act facilitates arraignment.
According to section 35 of the Criminal Offences Act Chapter 8:01 which states “Everyone who in any case where no express provision is made by this Act or by any other written law for the time being in force for the punishment thereof attempts to commit or incites or attempts to incite any other person to commit any felony not punishable with imprisonment for seven years or more or any misdemeanour under this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to imprisonment for one year.”
Benschop, along with a group of persons, says that they have the basis to file criminal charges against the Press Liaison officer to the President and member of the rights of the Child Commission.
According to Benschop, McCoy has committed an inchoate offence and can be duly prosecuted for his alleged actions namely the solicitation of sex from a minor.
He was referring to the sexually laced conversation between a 15-year-old boy, identified as Julius, and an adult voice believed to be that of McCoy.
Benschop is charging that the President and other top officials are trying to protect the wrong person, “Kwame McCoy in this situation is not the victim; he is the perpetrator.”

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