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Feb 04, 2015 Letters

Dear Sir,
“O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason” This quotation from Anthony’s speech to the Romans in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar immediately came to my mind when I read the alleged transcript of the telephone conversation between the policewoman of Cove and John station and the other female who was purporting to negotiate on behalf of the parents of the 15-year-old who was raped by the son of a high Guyanese official.
Imagine a 15-year-old girl had been raped. Her parents reported the matter to the police at Beterverwagting who chose to give them the run around by sending them to the Brickdam Police Station. They finally found their way to Cove and John police station where their complaint was accommodated, and where the alleged rapist was incarcerated for about three hours.
Then a scheme was hatched by a female police corporal on duty and someone who identifies herself as the rape victim’s cousin to profit off the misfortune of the 15-year-old girl. What kind of heartless women are these? Don’t they have children? How will they have felt if the misfortune had befallen one of their daughters and others were profiting similarly. Heartless is too mild a word to describe them. The motto of the Guyana Police Force is “Service and Protection.” Is that what was being offered by the female police corporal?
As I understand it, rape is a serious criminal offence and statutory rape is committed by someone who engaged in sex with an under-aged person. I further understand that the alleged perpetrator of this crime admitted to the police at Cove and John station that he did engage in the sex act with the 15 year old girl, but that it was consensual.
At 15 she could not give consent for such an act. The police at Cove and John station knew that and also knew that he committed statutory rape, and should have been so charged. Was he? No, he was not. Instead, the female police corporal, the alleged female cousin of the victim and the parents of the perpetrator compounded to obstruct the course of justice.
To indicate, therefore, that the police corporal is under investigation is merely sweeping the rest of the matter under the carpet. Why has the perpetrator of this crime not been charged even though he admitted to having carnal knowledge of the girl? Why is the alleged cousin of this young girl not being pursued for compounding with others to obstruct the course of justice, and why is this course of action not being taken against the parents of the alleged perpetrator of the crime for agreeing to pay the victim to settle a heinous crime?
Clearly when you are “big” in Guyana, you are above the law. This is just another of a string of events that prove this axiom right under the PPP/C administration. It brings to mind Big Bill Broonzy’s classic blues song of “black brown and white”. In the context of Guyana, it can be recast as:
“If you are PPP, its alright.
If you are a big official of the Government, stick around.
But if you are poor and helpless, oh brother, get back, get back, get back.”
Guyana can get far worse for the poor and helpless if this government is not removed at the next election.
Lance McCaskey

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