Kwame McCoy dodges media over sex-tape allegations

Oct 16, 2009 News

Kwame McCoy, who is caught up in scandalous allegation that he solicited sex from a 15-year-old boy, is back at his desk at the office of the President. Yesterday dodged questions about the allegations.
McCoy, who is the Information Liaison Officer to President Bharrat Jagdeo, has returned to work after taking two weeks leave in the wake of a tape recording of an adult sounding like Kwame McCoy soliciting sex from the minor surfaced.
McCoy moderated the weekly press briefing of the Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday. When McCoy was asked about the allegations and his return to work, Luncheon said that the press briefing was his (Luncheon’s) and that McCoy was available for questioning. Luncheon said he did not want to waste his “quality time” answering the question.
As soon as the press briefing was over, Kaieteur News approached McCoy, but he stormed out of the room, and hurriedly asked the media to leave because the President had an engagement and needed to use the Credentials Room where the press conference was held.
On Monday, President Jagdeo said that he believed the allegations were serious and had asked the Police to investigate the matter.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, has asked the police to find the 15-year-old boy from whom McCoy is alleged to have solicited sexual favours.
Jagdeo said he has not listened to the tape, because he does not believe a person should be judged based on a recording.
McCoy is believed to be the adult voice in a recorded conversation soliciting sexual favours from the 15-year-old boy. McCoy has denied the allegation, but the young boy has admitted to his mother, whom Kaieteur News spoke with, that he did indeed have the conversation with McCoy.
Jagdeo told reporters that he asked the Police to investigate the matter, because he believed the allegation against McCoy was serious enough.
Regarding the effect of the allegations on McCoy’s seat as a Commissioner on the Rights of the Child Commission, Jagdeo would only go as far as saying that he followed a fair process of having the matter fully investigated by the Police.
“I would not have done this…if I didn’t think the allegations were serious,” Jagdeo said Monday.
The Rights of the Child Commission is a constitutional body that is mandated to report directly to the National Assembly. Since the members of the Commission were sworn in on May 8, no meeting has been called to elect a chairperson, and as such the Commission is currently now not functioning.

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