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Many institutions failed this child
Dear Editor,
The Director of Public Prosecutions has instructed the police not to pursue any charges against Nigel Dharamlall.
As in numerous cases, the DPP’s office has committed a grievous blunder for the umpteen time. The Law governing sex offences is explicit in the amendment issued on May 24, 2010, Section 69 (1) NO CORROBORATION OF THE EVIDENCE OF THE COMPLAINANT, OR THE SWORN OR UNSWORN EVIDENCE OF A CHILD SHALL BE REQIRED FOR A CONVICTION OF AN OFFENCE UNDER THIS ACT.
On Thursday, June 29, the DPP’s office returned the police file on the rape allegations against the minister instructing that ranks do further investigations into the matter. The very next day, the Guyana Police Force announced that the teen informed the police investigators that she no longer wished to continue with the matter. Now this reeks of quite the opposite that the rubber stamp President had stated that he will allow the police to conduct the investigations without trying to influence the outcome. ‘From the inception, I advised the population that I would allow the system to work. I would never and the government would never intervene in the system.’ His statement is futile because he knows, and the people of Guyana is fully aware the DPP’s office was playing a game because of instructions by the powers that be to subject the child to continuous investigations until she became frustrated and wary and recant the rape allegations.
It must be made clear that both the police and the DPP’s office have bungled the case and have violated the child. They have flaunted the law mentioned above in favour of the minister. This is the outcome they had wanted from the beginning. Even if the child recanted her statement, the DPP’s office should not be allowed to dismiss charges against the minister. The DPP should have charged the minister based on the child’s initial statement and let a judge and jury decide whether he is guilty or not. The entire Amerindian community should not take this lying down, they should rebel against this merciless, cruel, and wicked government.
Furthermore, there needs to be an inquiry into the actions of the DPP’s office, the police investigators, and the interrogators in the Social Services Childcare Department on their coordinated effort to pressure the young child to recant her story. As adults, they care less about the interests of the child and more about those of the alleged rapist. They have brought untold and lifelong suffering to the child who may attempt to take her life in future.
A source close to Social Services has told me that the DPP’s office and the police have frustrated and intimidated the teen to the point where she was traumatized and broke down and this forced the child to tell them that she did not want to continue any longer. The DPP’s office knows very well the behaviour of children who have accused adults of committing crimes against them. The fact is there is an abundance of evidence that a crime has been committed. Shame on the inept and pitiless DPP’s office for bungling the case, something always done when a high-level member of the party has committed a heinous crime. The DPP’s office has no integrity, the police are immoral and the Social Services personnel whose care the child was under is dishonest and unreliable.
Yours truly,
Leyland Chitlall Roopnaraine
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