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‘She is not a floor cloth; I will fight for justice’ – Mother of schoolgirl dragged through city bus park
(Kaieteur News) – The mother of the 15-year-old schoolgirl who was dragged through the Stabroek Market Square bus park says she will not rest until charges are brought against the two Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA) officers who treated her daughter poorly.
Sheina Douglas mother of the 15-year-old girl who was dragged through the city bus park by welfare officers.
“My daughter is not a floor cloth, she is not a dog, she is a human, she have rights, she got pride. If they had took five minutes and listen to she, this whole thing won’t have happened,” Sheina Douglas, told Nightly News during an interview with Travis Chase.
A viral video circulating on social media, showed the two welfare officers dragging the girl who was clad in her school uniform. At one point, one of the officers held onto the girl’s hair as they dragged her. Persons at the bus park were heard registering their objections with the way the child was treated.
Recounting the event, Douglas said she received a call around 09:00hrs and went to the police outpost opposite Demico House in Georgetown, where she found her daughter crying.
“When I reach there, it was a crowd, my daughter was crying, people was telling her all sort of thing…cause she end up cursing up. So, I tell them now, they want I to listen to them about how she was behaving, so I tell them wait, I gon listen to my daughter first,” Douglas said.
Sceengrab from the video showing the two CPA officers dragging the schoolgirl.
According to the Douglas, her daughter left home around 08:00hrs to deliver a skirt to a young woman and then attend her school’s Phagwah celebration. However, while waiting on the park to hand over the skirt, she was approached by two welfare officers and about three ranks of the Guyana Police Force, who questioned why she was there during school hours.
The teen reportedly told them she was waiting to deliver the item before heading to school. Douglas said her daughter told her that during the conversation with the welfare and police officers, a bus came up and as she attempted to enter the bus, someone grabbed her bag from behind. The officers then told her she could not board the bus and had to go to the outpost.
“She words is that me ain’t gah go no outpost, wuh I do? … my daughter keep telling them me aint going nowhere…me daughter said she brace the bus, one hold she hand, another one hold she hand and then she feel somebody wrap they hand around the natty and then they start dragging she,” Douglas said.
Douglas noted that her daughter related to her that while she was being dragged some persons were ridiculing her saying she don’t like school. “Like if she is some bad person, she does run away and do these sort of things…me daughter said mommy I just left them and let them drag me,” she added.
The mother made it clear that she is not satisfied with the decision to suspend the officers. “I need it to go to court, I need the two young ladies to get charge for abusing, physically and mentally to my daughter,” she said.
The woman said the ordeal has left her daughter traumatised and fearful of public ridicule, given the circulation of the video online. “She said she feel shame, she said she skin up all pon the ground and when she look she see a man went videoing she…” the angry mother related.
“People gon point her out, they gon make laugh off of she, this video not gon come down, my daughter have to live with this all of her life…I don’t feel comfortable with it, because my child is not a bad person, she never run away, I never had them kinda trouble with me daughter and I really need justice for my daughter,” Douglas said.
In a statement on Facebook, Minister of Human Services and Social Security Vindhya Persaud described the footage as “appalling” and confirmed that the two CPA officers were suspended with immediate effect. She said the Guyana Police Force has been engaged to take further action and that the officers will be held accountable for conduct that runs counter to the agency’s values and procedures.
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