CPA launches probe into child molestation at GPHC

Oct 06, 2015 News

– security guards to be interrogated
A senior official from the Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA) yesterday said that an investigation has been launched into the molestation of a 16-year-old female patient in the wee hours of Sunday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
The young patient was reportedly harassed by a man said to be in his late 40s who slipped past security and somehow made his way up to the Female Surgical Ward.
Head of the CPA, Ms. Ann Greene, said that one of her officers was dispatched to the hospital and has already commenced working on the case. She declined to comment further until she is in receipt of a report.
Meanwhile, based on information obtained by this publication, management at the health institution will be questioning its security guards as to how an intruder managed to make his way up to the third-floor ward and harassed a patient, right under their noses.
It is very unlikely for persons, who are not staff members, to be wandering around the hospital new wing since it is located at the back of the compound. Outsiders are restricted from this section of the hospital when it’s not visiting hours.
Guards are usually stationed at strategic points in the facility as well as in the hospital’s compound.
Kaieteur News was told that there is usually a security guard doing patrol duties throughout the day and night at the hospital.
A number of guards are also usually positioned at the main entrance (New Market Street) and also at all the other entrances to the facility thus it is unclear as to how the individual, who is currently in police custody, passed through all the guards.
Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the hospital, Mr. Alan Johnson, could not be reached for a comment yesterday. In fact, this newspaper was told that the acting CEO will not be taking questions from the media as it relates to the incident in question.
However, a senior medical officer at the hospital told this newspaper that the guards on duty that night will have to say where they were and what they were doing at the time. It is expected that this will be done in writing.
This publication was informed that the suspect in the matter sneaked into the ward to molest the 16-year-old patient. The man allegedly resides a short distance from the patient’s home.
It is suspected that the man may have been observing the girl even before she was admitted to the hospital last Thursday and decided to pounce when her guardians were absent.
There are reports that the man climbed into the teen’s bed and repeatedly tried to woo her. He told her to place her fingers on her lips and be quiet while he asked her whether she loved him and wanted to marry him.
Most of the patients were asleep but it was one elderly woman who first noticed the midnight visitor and raised an alarm. The man was later dragged out of the ward and the police were summoned.

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