Relatives of sexually molested 9-year-old still awaiting justice

Months later

…accused rapist on station bail

More than two months have passed since a man allegedly sexually molested his nine-year-old female relative in the mining town of Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice), and the alleged paedophile is yet to face the court.
The male relative, who is in his 60s reportedly sexually molested the child twice during her weekend visit to her paternal relatives in the month of September.
Police Commander of Region 10, Superintendent Hugh Winter, when contacted on Saturday, confirmed that the file in relation to this matter was dispatched to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) but that it has not been returned to him to date.
However, he is hopeful that the advice on the way forward is communicated to the police soon.
Reports are that the child left her residence on September 27 (Friday) to spend the weekend with relatives in the mining town and returned home on September 29 (Sunday) in a withdrawn state.
The little girl then told her maternal aunt and other relatives about what transpired during her brief vacation with her relatives.
“She said that she loves her aunty but that she cannot go back there [at their home]. She said that the uncle, her aunty’s husband, is a wicked man, she kept saying he is a wicked man when we asked her why she did not want to go back. Then she started telling us one by one what happened to her,” the grandmother had previously told this publication.
The elderly woman had explained that the man took her granddaughter along with his two grandchildren to “Blue Water Lake” and a creek in “Buck Town” between Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon under the pretence of teaching the young children to swim.
However, he allegedly touched the child’s private parts inappropriately despite the child telling him to stop.