Relatives of abused teenager picket Child Protection Agency

May 17, 2014 News

– CPA, Police investigations continuing

Distraught relatives of an abused teenager opted to picket the Charlestown Office of the Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA), on Thursday, after their initial attempts to get assistance from workers of the agency proved futile.
“I been coming here for past two days to get help but all getting is the royal run around. No one has been taking me on. I made a report but I was directed to see Ann Greene because I wanted to ensure that the child is safe but they keep pushing me around. Nobody ain’t offer no real assistance,” a frustrated Sharon Fung told Kaieteur news.
I don’t know why them does say call or report any matter of abuse is this how they does treat people,” she added.
Fung, a vendor who operates in the vicinity of the Stabroek Market, said that she decided to visit the agency on Tuesday after she learnt that a close female relative was being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather.
“She is only fifteen years old and she get away from school and came by me. She tell my daughter what happen because she said that she tell her mother about her stepfather and she tek a clothes iron and brand she in she back with it.
“My daughter called me and told what happen and I leff me work right away and went home. I decided to take to her to the Cove and John Police Station because we are living on the East Coast.”
According to Fung, while at the Cove and John Police Station, officers took statements from the young girl and sent her to get a medical certificate.
She said that she thought the intervention of the CPA integral and thus she reached out to officers at the agency.
“After I mek the report and they arrest the stepfather I come looking for the welfare,” Fung said that as she explained that she suspected that female rank at the station wanted to ‘cover up,’ the matter.
“A relative of the girl’s mother working there and she look like she want to duck de story …so I decide to come to the welfare. Because I didn’t satisfied with how them treating de child, how they questioning she and handling she so.
“I think if a child protection worker been there it would have been different. I want to ensure that the child is safe that why I am out here today,” Fung added.
Director of Child Protection Services, Ann Greene explained that she has since reassured the girl’s relatives that the agency will be working in her best interest.
Greene said that the incident was as a result of a misunderstanding.
“We have a new front desk clerk in training, who did not convey the message properly… so there was a mix -up. However, the matter was reported and the agency is currently conducting its investigations.
A Child Protection Officer is at this very moment at the Cove and John Police Station making the necessary intervention.”

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