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Police forced my son to fetch a truck load of sand-mother alleges
Bibi Fazeela Rayman of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara is calling on Commissioner of Police Henry Greene and the Home Minister Affairs Clement Rohee to investigate some policemen who took advantage of her 15-year-old son.
The mother of two said that her son Balkaram Teekram was sent to collect something on Friday last from a friend in the village and while on his way he was stopped by a jeep load of “black clothes” policemen who told him to jump into the vehicle.
Bibi Fazeela Rayman
The woman said that residents who saw the incident informed her that her son willingly complied with the police’s orders.
She subsequently visited the Leonora Police Station where she explained what was told to her and after making enquiries about her son, she was told that he was at the La Grange Police Station.
But after checking there and not finding her son, the woman made an official complaint and subsequently met with the Divisional Commander who ordered that the youth be brought to the Leonora Police Station after learning that he was in police custody.
The lad was later released into the custody of his parents.
Yesterday the 15-year-old Balkaram Teekram told this newspaper that policemen in black clothing with large guns had stopped him on Friday, while he was walking on the road and told him to jump into their vehicle.
The youth explained that he was taken into Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara where he was made to fetch sand into a yard for an hour.
After the involuntary ordeal, the lad was taken to the Leonora Police Station where he was handed over to his parents. “The police gave me a $1,000 before they bring me back.”
The woman is alleging that what had happened can be considered kidnapping since her son was made to go somewhere involuntary without even contacting any relative to tell them of his whereabouts.
“I am going to the Ministry of Human Services and ask them if people children are just treated so cruelly,” She said.
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