The system failed Neesa Lalita Gopaul angry relatives complained yesterday, stating that if the police and the welfare service had been functioning the way they should, the 16-year-old would have been alive today.
Several months ago Neesa Lalita Gopaul and her mother had made reports of assault and abuse to police at Leonora but about a month before her death the teen returned to the station claiming that the allegations she made were false, Commander of Police ‘D’ Divison Balram Persaud said.