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Mother angry at sons’ arrest, accuses police for unfair treatment
The mother of the two boys, Mywatie King (Sita)
– but neighbours say children are out of control
A very distraught mother visited Kaieteur News yesterday to air her concerns about the actions of the Guyana Police Force, more specifically, the way some police officers of the Wales Police Station treated her two juvenile sons.
Mywatie King (Sita) told this newspaper that on Friday last, a number of police officers appeared at her home stating that they came to arrest her two young sons for damage to property and break and enter charges.
Sita was told that a report was made at the Wales Police Station by her neighbour that Sita’s children had broken a padlock on their door and had damaged other parts of their house some time the day before (Thursday).
She explained that the neighbours did indeed complain to her husband on Friday morning around 10:00 AM about the incident and she was very surprised to “see police show up” at 04:00 PM the same day.
According to the boys’ mother, her husband accompanied the children to the Wales Police Station, where an officer asked him, “What you have to say?”
He could not find a suitable answer and thus remained quiet while the police explained that the neighbour’s daughter-in-law saw their two sons running from the house and when she made a check, she noticed that the house was broken into.
Kaieteur News was made to understand that both boys were handcuffed and taken to the Den Amstel Police Station where they were locked up with other juveniles.
Sita stated that she did not mind the fact that the police were executing their duties however she does not feel it was “right” to have her 10-year-old son handcuffed like a criminal and then having to sleep on “a cold concrete floor”.
She said that this has resulted in him having a terrible cough and cold.
She added that though the matter was called up in court and both boys were placed on $5,000 bail each, she could only muster $5,000 to “take out the younger one”. The 16-year-old is still in police custody since she cannot afford to pay another $5,000 bail at the moment.
The aggravated woman said that a Detective Cameron, CID Department, of the Wales Police Station handcuffed her children.
She said that the said detective was (engaged to) or involved in a relationship with a relative of the persons who filed the complaint against her children and she strongly believes that is what influenced the police “not to treat the matter fairly”.
But another officer explained that Detective Cameron was on leave and that he did not have anything to do with the matter, that he merely assisted in bringing the children to the station..
The officer told this publication that she believes Sita is “trying to use the past relationship as a weapon”. She stated that the mother is probably trying to place the blame elsewhere and trying to hide the fact that the children are not being taken care of properly.
When Kaieteur News contacted the Wales Police Station for a comment on the matter, there was a lot to be said.
One officer told the Kaieteur News reporter that the two children were seen running away from the neighbour’s house by the daughter in-law of the neighbour who usually visits her in-laws to assist because her father-in-law “suffers from stroke”.
The female officer continued by explaining that one of the boys shouted to his brother to notify him that “someone coming!” which is what attracted the attention of the man’s daughter-in-law.
When she looked in the direction of the shout, she saw them running away and upon her arrival at the house, she became aware of the padlock being broken into and she then realized what the boys had been doing.
Kaieteur News was told that the children do not attend school regularly and are usually up to mischief.
The 16 year-old son was already in court and placed upon a bond to keep the peace with his neighbours’ grand-children.
It was reported that the area where Sita lives, which is deemed a “squatting area” has a large number of children who do not attend school regularly and the parents think they can “get away with this”.
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