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Girl, 12, pregnant after stepfather allegedly sexually abused her and 9-year-old sister
Kaieteur News- A mother is devastated after learning that the man she loved and trusted for ten years might have been sexually abusing her young daughters, leaving one of them pregnant.
The girls are only 12 and 9-years-old respectively.
Girl, 12, pregnant after stepfather allegedly sexually abused her and 9-year-old sister
The heinous crime took place in the North West District, Region One and the prime suspect according to information reaching Kaieteur News is the children’s stepfather.
Police had arrested him after a report was lodged with Region One police in January. He spent 72 hours in the lock-ups but police were forced to release him on $200,000 bail as they continued their investigation.
A month has passed since then and he is yet to be prosecuted. One of the children, age 12, he is accused of sexually abusing is six-months pregnant and is presently in Georgetown.
Her mother has remained in the interior Region and is growing frustrated and angrier with each passing day that the suspect remains free.
“I need some kind a justice…I need some kind a justice I want to know why the process is moving so slow,” the woman said.
The woman said she regularly checks with the police for updates and they would claim that the file is with the Director, with Public Prosecution (DPP), SC. Shalimar Ali Hack.
“This happen almost a month now and every time I go to the station, they always telling me, ‘The paper ain’t come back yet they waiting for advice,” she claimed while adding that she now fears that the suspect might go into hiding.
The woman told Kaieteur News that she has since removed the man from her home.
“Presently, a don’t know where he is now, but a know he does go in the backdam and work. A don’t know if he is there or he is somewhere else,” she said.
Sexual Abuse
The woman reportedly started a relationship with the suspect 10 years ago. They have a son together but she never knew he has a dark side until her daughter became pregnant.
She said he is a miner and during last year they went into the back-dam with him to help out. At the end of August 2024, the distraught woman recalled that they made gold and the man wanted her 12-year-old daughter to accompany him to sell it at a location, miles away from the backdam.
Trusting him, she allowed her daughter to go with him. When they returned days later from selling the gold the woman observed that her daughter was not the same.
“She was missing her period,” the mother said.
The mother said she asked her daughter repeatedly if she was sexually active but the girl denied. Concerned for her daughter’s health, the woman took her for a medical check-up two months later. It was then she discovered that the child was pregnant.
At first, the child maintained her silence but later revealed to her mother, that her stepfather engaged in sexual activity with her “when they came out to sell the gold, August Month-end”.
The child reportedly told her mother that the suspect had warned her that if she talks, he would go to jail and they would have no-where to live because his relatives will put them out of their home.
Immediately, the mother took action but was in for additional shock when she learnt that the abuse was going on for a while and involved both her daughters.
“She left and she go to town with her grandmother and when she left and she go to town now she saying, “I should check the other sister” and we want to know why she keep saying check the other sister,” the woman recalled.
Picking up on the hint, the woman decided to take her younger 9-year-old daughter to the hospital. There she was told that the child was also being molested.
“I have the medical from the hospital,” she said while relating that the doctors explained that while the child did not show signs of penetration, there were bruises on her legs and on her private parts.
It is believed that the man has been talking advantage of her two daughters for a while and has managed to keep up a façade.
She told Kaieteur News that Blossom Inc. has intervened and has assisted police with the forensic interview. Notwithstanding the support she is receiving from the organization, the woman worries about the trauma her daughters experienced and blames herself for the disturbing ordeal they faced.
Investigations are ongoing.
(Girl, 12, pregnant after stepfather allegedly sexually abused her and 9-year-old sister)
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