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Girls rescued from sexual exploitation responding well to counselling

Jun 18, 2012 News

 

 

– Ann Greene
Almost two months after being rescued from a life of sexual exploitation in Region Seven, four teenage girls are adapting well to counselling. This was according to head of the Child Protection Agency Ann Greene.
Greene in a brief telephone interview on Saturday told Kaieteur News that social workers have seen a major improvement in the girls’ behaviour.
Kaieteur News was told that two of them who are school aged are presently attending learning institutions in Georgetown. Greene explained that the girls are receiving counselling and they have been opening up. She said that one of the girls through their care has also been engaged in extra curricula activities. “She loves cosmetology and we have enrolled her for a summer class”.
According to Greene, although the young girl is being allowed to follow up on this it is still mandatory for her to attend school, since according to law any child below the age of 15 has to attend school. Kaieteur News was told that the other girls, who are older, are also in the care of the agency. This newspaper was told that one girl has a baby.
“The older girls also still receive counselling among other services and they have been adjusting properly” Greene told Kaieteur News.
The girls were rescued back in April thanks to collaborative efforts by the Guyana Women Miners’ Organization and ranks of the Bartica Police Station.
Their perpetrators were apprehended by ranks that went in search of the teenagers at the prostitution house in Oko Backdam. The police were made aware of the situation through the Women Miners’ Organization, which aided in the girls being rescued.
Only last month the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, which has been lobbying for greater sensitization in Human Trafficking received financial boost from the United Nations Development Programme.
Country representative Ms. Khadija Musa handed over a US$75,000 grant to Social Services Minister, Jennifer Webster, which would go towards combating human trafficking.

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