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A grown man touching a child’s private parts is a sexual offence in Guyana just as it is in the US

Nov 15, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
In Sunday’s Kaieteur News Vishnu Bisram argued that convicted child sex offender Dr. Vishwamintra Persaud should be “given a chance” and allowed to practice medicine in Guyana, despite having been convicted of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl.
He bases his argument on the fact that Dr. Persaud says he was framed by his ex-wife and pleaded guilty to the offence only because he believed that he would be allowed to practice medicine despite the conviction.
He attempts to rationalise Dr. Persaud’s abuse of the child by saying, “Dr. Persaud claimed he touched his wife’s relative daughter in a playful manner, something that is very common in Guyana to show love and affection for loved ones. In the US, that is considered child abuse resulting in grave consequences similar to actually committing a sexual offence”
Well I don’t know who Vishnu Bisram has been liming with, but it is most certainly not common or accepted practice for a grown man to fondle an 11-year-old girl’s vagina in the Guyana that I live in.
Perhaps Mr. Bisram has been away too long to know this, but the laws of this country are quite clear on matters relating to sexual contact between adults and children. A grown man touching a child’s vagina is a sexual offence in Guyana just as it is in the US.
It is alarming to me that this is the second statement I have read in defence of Dr. Persaud where his supporter justifies Persaud’s illegal conduct by trivialisng child sexual abuse.
The first was by Dr Madan Rambarran head of medical services at the Georgetown Hospital who said, “In my best opinion I don’t believe that he poses a risk. The evidence is that the incident for which he was convicted relates to one child. It is not as if there is a pattern of molestation of children; at least that is the information that we have.”
To Dr. Rambarran sexual abuse of a child is quite alright as long as it is confined to that one child. Are these views representative of the way many men think? If so God help our girl children.
Name and address withheld

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