Police hunt for mother of 9-y-o found locked in ECD house

The police are hunting for the mother of the 9-year-old boy who was discovered locked up in an East Coast Demerara (ECD) house and subsequently taken into custody by the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA).

CCPA Director, Ann Greene

Commander of C Division (East Coast Demerara), Calvin Brutus stated that although the woman had made an appeal to the media for assistance in having her son returned to her after claiming that her son might have been sexually molested, the woman never reported the matter to the police.
He stated that in an effort to help both the child and his mother, the police conducted a search in the village where the woman lives but came up empty-handed.
“The police did not get to contact her as yet; we would like to question her. We checked at the last address that we know but she is not there. We need to know who this man is that she is speaking of too.”
Recently, Director of the CCPA, Ann Greene told this publication that in relation to this matter, the boy’s mother went to the media for assistance but she is yet to visit the organisation to provide the relevant information about her son’s alleged abuse.
“The police should charge her because she is part of what happened to this child but they [parents] tend to get away with saying it is poverty and they went to look for betterment. No, you have to first get the child properly cared for and then go and look for betterment so parents have got to understand this too. This child, he is traumatised with what happened to him and so he has to get proper care,” Greene had told this publication a few days ago.

Commander C Division,
Calvin Brutus

According to the CCPA Director, although the mother is requesting for her son to return in her care, at this point she is being considered an accessory to whatever abuse and trauma the boy experienced in her absence.
“We are not going to hand him over to her, she needs some help so she has to work with us so we could give her the help so she can take better care of her son, we are not going to hand him over to her. We have to investigate her, she has to be evaluated and she just cannot appear back and said she came for her child. She can’t appear now and says she wants her son, how we going to hand him back to her so? For him to get further traumatised?”
She further explained that once a child has been removed from a home for child abuse in any form, even if the parent was not the one who inflicted the abuse then that parent would have to work with the CCPA to show that he/she is capable of providing a safe environment for that child. (Kristen Macklingam)