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Four teens rescued by GWMA to remain in care of Child Protection Agency

Apr 23, 2013 News

Up to press time yesterday the four teens rescued from a shop in Tiger Creek, Puruni, Region Seven by the Women Miners’ Association were in the care of the Child Care Protection Agency.
Head of that Agency, Ann Green, said that her social workers were with the girls most of yesterday prior to their being questioned by police at Eve Leary Headquarters.
Green said after the police were finished with the teens the Agency took them into their care.
Further Green said the teens will be questioned and counseled by social workers from the agency.
Members of the Guyana Women Miners’ Organisation (GWMO) rescued the four teenagers from alleged sexual slavery.  In the process, the group had an altercation with the owner of the shop from where they were rescued on Sunday last.
The girls age 14, 15, 17, and 18 years old were reportedly being held in a shop, popularly called ‘Kaimoo’ by pork knockers, in Tiger Creek, Puruni, Region Seven.
According to Simona Broomes, Head of the GWMA, the crying teens, after being rescued, spent Sunday night on a bench in the Bartica Police Station. The police there had refused to provide security at the private residence where the GWMA wanted to keep the girls.
According to Broomes, the representative of the Human Services Ministry in Bartica was unable to provide any assistance immediately to the young girls. Broomes initially told this publication that rescuing the girls was not an easy task and members of the GWMA had to put up a fight.
Without police security, members of GWMA had to depend on their lone personal security to help fight off the perpetrators who followed them to Itaballi.
Broomes said that she was shocked to see that the Mines Officer in the area and the perpetrators are friends. She said that at the Mines Officer’s dwelling place, a physical altercation occurred.
She said that she was assaulted and was forced to defend herself. The mines officer said nothing until she retaliated.
He has since been suspended.

 

 

 

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