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Tribunal convened to investigate child-dragging case
(Kaieteur News) – A tribunal has been commissioned to investigate the conduct of two officers attached to the Child Care and Protection Agency (CPA), who were seen in a widely circulated video dragging a 15-year-old schoolgirl through the Stabroek Market Square bus park.
This is according to Minister of Human Services and Social Security Dr. Vindhya Persaud.
Minister of Human Services and Social Security Dr. Vindhya Persaud
The Department of Public Information on Thursday reported the minister saying, “As the Ministry of Human Services and its Child Care Protection Agency, which is an arm of the ministry, we believe that the rights of children must be protected. Children must be safe from harm and abuse.”
She noted that the tribunal will review reports submitted by the officers involved and hear from them before compiling its findings. Those findings will then guide any further action to be taken by the ministry. The tribunal is expected to review the evidence and submit its report to the ministry to determine the next course of action.
The two welfare officers were suspended with immediate effect pending an investigation and the Guyana Police Force was contacted.
Sheina Douglas the mother of the schoolgirl, during a recent interview with Nightly News said she will not rest until charges are brought against the two officers.
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.
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