…reportedly forced teen students
Police in Region Six, East Berbice, have taken a Corentyne teacher into custody on an allegation that he had forced two teenage sisters — reportedly school dropouts aged 14 and 15 — to perform oral sex on him.
Reports are that the teacher had gone to the home of the teen girls ostensibly to take food items for the family, but had instead collected the sisters and taken them to another location, where he allegedly forced them to perform the act on him. Following the incident, the teens went to the Albion Police Station and reported the matter.
Police Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner Ian Amsterdam, confirmed that the teacher has been taken into custody, and that the teens had taken police to the place where the incident had allegedly occurred. He said the police have since prepared a file based on the reports, and are awaiting legal advice on the matter.
Guyana Times understands that some parents had, in the past, alleged that this teacher had been seeking advanced payment of school fees under the pretext that the money was needed to purchase fuel for a motor vehicle.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident that has similar implications of sexual impropriety, it was reported to Guyana Times that an executive member of the Alliance For Change (AFC) had sexually assaulted a Corentyne teenage girl. Commander Amsterdam reported on Thursday that police had gone to the suspect’s home following receipt of the report, but he had gone into hiding. The man has since turned himself in to police custody.
According to Amsterdam, the Police have already prepared a file based on the report made by the teenager. That file will be sent for legal advice soon, Amsterdam said.
