Dear Editor,
I beg to share my views on a recent incident where the mother of the raped three-year-old was charged with ‘wilful neglect’ with intent to cause the child unnecessary suffering and injury to the child’s health, while the man who allegedly committed the actual heinous act was unnamed and placed on 0,000 bail.
From what I read in the newspapers, on June 19, the mother went on a drinking spree, returned home at 20:30 hours and retired to bed with her children. However, at around 01:30h, she awoke to find the baby girl missing from the bed. Upon checking, she discovered the toddler in front of the one-flat home bleeding severely from her vagina.
If indeed the mother wilfully neglected this child how come the mother according to the newspapers took the toddler to the Police Station where she was advised to take the child to the hospital, where it was confirmed that she was indeed molested.
Editor, the police reports seem reeked of half-truths to make the mother the villain and not the actual culprit. The mother was sleeping with this child and didn’t neglect nor abandon her.
A more thorough investigation is needed to bring the real culprit to justice. Where is the Ministry of Human Service? This mother needs support and representation.
A mother despite allegedly being an alcoholic was taken away from her five children and remanded to prison, while a man who allegedly molested a three-year-old, yes a three-year-old is on bail and walking the roads in Berbice or on his way to Suriname.
I am outraged at these seeming loopholes in our laws and the judicial system in passing judgments. Is a drunk mother sleeping with her child approval for a man to rape that child?
Additionally, why is the identity of this pervert being protected? Are we as a supposedly law-abiding country condoning such behaviour.
With this in mind, I call upon all women’s right organisations, the Office of the Commissioner of Police, the Ministry of Legal Affairs and other relevant authorities to look into this matter to prevent a rapist slipping through the crevice and victimising a mother in the process. She was made a victim twice.
Sincerely,
Samuel Singh
