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Sep 15, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
I feel to an article in the Guyana Chronicle (September 13th, 2016) online edition under the headline ‘Deflowering of children must stop’. I wonder if the person who made this statement stopped for a moment to think about how utterly inhumane the statement was. I wonder if they have ever had to speak to, hold or comfort a victim of sexual assault or rape, particularly a child. We live in a country, in a world, where little bodies are broken, battered and laid to waste by adults through physical and sexual abuse. We also live in a world where powerful people protect abusers, where the media is often used as a tool of manipulation and somewhere along the way the most vulnerable in our society are rendered voiceless, their suffering minimized. Our children are not flowers to be plucked. I propose another headline “The Government adopts a no tolerance policy on the rape and sexual abuse of children’.
Nadia Sagar

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