Girl gives birth after being abused, raped in Corentyne

Jan 12, 2013 News

Relatives accuse Police Welfare Department of sloth

A father’s love for his daughter forced him to leave his adopted home in the USA and return to Guyana in a hurry, but he was too late to save his daughter from abuse and from being impregnated.
The girl who hails from Crabwood Creek, Corentyne is now hospitalised in the Skeldon Hospital where she delivered a baby boy after being allegedly raped and forced to have sex by her mother, who would lock her in a room with a male at her home at Black Bush Polder, Corentyne.
Speaking to Kaieteur News, the father who resides in the USA stated that he is very disturbed with the entire scenario and is questioning the purpose of the Police force and the Government Welfare Department.
The man stated that his daughter is an “outside child” he fathered with someone else. However, he takes care of her and is in the process of filing for her to join him and the rest of the family overseas. He has full custody.
He stated that the girl’s mother lives in Black Bush Polder and has a number of other children from different relationships. On one visit home he made all arrangements for the child to live with her maternal grandmother in Crabwood Creek. He also made sure that she was attending the Skeldon Line Path Secondary School.
He said that during the early part of 2012 the girl’s mother turned up at her mother’s residence and after abusing the elderly woman forcefully took the child back with her to Black Bush Polder stating the child was hers.
The girl who was 16 then and a fourth form student was then subjected to a regular bout of abuse and was repeatedly forced to have sex with an older guy who is the nephew of her step father. The man said that his daughter told him that her cell phone was taken away and “daddy mommy does lock me in a room with a boy.”
She told her father that the perpetrator and his cohorts would give her mother money. The abuse continued until the girl decided to make some promises to the perpetrator if he would buy her a cell phone. When she received the phone she used the opportunity to telephone her grandmother and inform her of the abuse.
Her grandmother travelled to Black Bush Polder and took the girl back with her to Crabwood Creek. The older woman eventually got through to go overseas in October and left the girl with her sister. The child did not know that she was pregnant and returned to school.
She started to increase in size and relatives thought that she was getting fat. She eventually left for Suriname. She became ill and authorities over there realized that she was pregnant and told relatives that they could not keep her there. They were informed that it was a matter for the police and the Welfare Department because the girl was too young.
On their return to Guyana the matter was reported to the Springlands Police station and the Welfare Department at Skeldon. However the father said nothing was done. He is appalled at how the system operates in Guyana; that something like this is allowed to happen. Even when the matter is reported to the relevant authorities nothing is done and no one is held culpable.
He was shocked when he got the news that his daughter was pregnant. He immediately made arrangement to return to Guyana to sort things out. He arrived in the country on January 7, last, to see his daughter in an advanced stage of pregnancy.
He wants something to be done to the perpetrators, including the mother, and those who are paid to do their duty and are failing to perform. He is appealing to the relevant authorities to assist. His daughter’s life has been messed up and he wants justice.
The man said that he was scheduled to return later to do a DNA for his daughter so that he could make the final arrangement to take her overseas. Her grandmother is also expected to return to the country during the coming week.

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