Human rights activist Karen de Souza has condemned the treatment meted out to a 14-year-old rape victim by the officers at the Turkeyen Police Station, where the girl was made to wait eight hours for a female officer to accompany her to the hospital for a medical certificate.
This occurred the day after the bloodied girl was taken by her parents to report the attack and was told to return the next day to be taken to the hospital for the medical.
Calling the treatment “inhumane” and “disgusting,” de Souza told Stabroek News the actions of the officers go against what is set out in the new Sexual Offences Act, which has provisions to minimise the additional trauma that victims experience while trying to seek justice.
The child’s mother visited this newspaper with her daughter yesterday