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Alleged sodomy of teen…Failure to ID suspects might be the end of the investigation – Kennard
Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority, Justice Cecil Kennard, has said that while he has the file of the teen Nicholas Kissoon who claims that he was sodomized by police ranks, he has not been able to read it since he received it on Friday.
The mere fact that Kissoon was unable to identify the alleged culprits, could signal the end of the case.
The lad who is described by family and close relatives as one who would make false allegations, sparked off an investigation after alleging that three police ranks sodomised him at the Stabroek Market Police Outpost at around 21:00 hours on January 19, last.
According to a police official, the ‘victim’ claimed that one of the perpetrators has a gold tooth and was dressed in uniform at the time, while the other ranks were in plainclothes.
However Police and Welfare officials had said that despite two identification parades, the lad failed to pick out the alleged culprits who he claimed sexually assaulted him. A police official told Kaieteur News that investigators had been trying to locate the teen so he could try to identify the accused ranks but were unsuccessful.
They got a break when the lad staged a protest on the roof top of the Police Co-operative Society building in Robb Street and later on the roof of Stabroek News, threatening to take his life while repeatedly shouting that he was sodomised by police officers.
He said that he was afraid to go back into police custody, and was fed up with his lifestyle. He was subsequently apprehended.
Kaieteur News understands that it has been recommended that the teen undergo psychiatric evaluation. During the incident that occurred on the roof tops Kissoon, also called ‘Beyonce,’ ‘Nikki’ and ‘Sweet Back’ was pacing back and forth and speaking to himself, the lad repeatedly said “I can’t go back. Why these people just don’t leave me alone. I wan dead. I wan dead.”
Social workers are familiar with the teen, who has a long history of delinquency and is also a commercial sex worker.
Close relatives of the alleged victim have repeatedly expressed skepticism about his story. At least two relatives claimed that the lad has a habit of making false accusations. They said that the ‘victim’ has been wandering the streets from an early age and was involved in acts of prostitution.
His mother is said to be ill while his father is serving a life sentence for murder. Kaieteur News was told that the boy was staying with an elderly female relative, but began wandering the streets and soliciting sex, after the relative died.
He was incarcerated at the New Opportunity Corps but was released a few months ago.
One relative described the ‘victim’ as someone who “would bring police and say you do him something.”
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