A Wakapoa, Pomeroon River man is currently in police custody following reports that he had impregnated his 14-year-old daughter, who is currently some five months pregnant and hospitalized.
However, according to the girl’s mother, her daughter has repeatedly said that her father was not responsible for her pregnancy and she is asking the authorities to conduct a thorough investigation.
“I did not know that my daughter get rape or she was pregnant,” the woman said. “She didn’t tell me anything until when her belly started showing. That is when she tell me that one late afternoon, she was going home when someone hold her down and raped her. She say that she didn’t talk because she was frighten that her father would beat her so we didn’t know anything about it.
“Since Saturday my daughter is [hospitalized] and every time I go and see her, she just crying and telling me that she want to go home. Now the welfare people telling me that until somebody from the welfare office come from [George]town, they will not discharge her.”
Efforts made by this publication to contact the Welfare Department in Essequibo proved futile.
The woman said her family is going through a difficult time because of the allegation and she does not know who made it.
“This is very, very hard for me because I have 6 other children in Wakapoa and since Saturday I am on the Essequibo Coast,” she said. “I had to leave my other children with my mother who is blind.
“When I take my daughter for the nurse to examine her in Wakapoa, she said no she would not do it and that I must carry my daughter to a hospital on the coast… I turn and ask her why and all she do was laugh. I beg and beg but she did not check my daughter. I remember the same nurse ask my daughter who she pregnant for and she [daughter] did not answer her. Then all of a sudden we hearing that her father get her pregnant and the police arrest him.”
The woman added that her husband who usually works in the mines or does logging out of the area was not at home between the months of December and January when her daughter would have conceived.
“My husband was not at home so I don’t know how really the information about he bigging her belly come about. Now my daughter is in the hospital and my husband is in jail. My daughter keep saying that her father did not get her pregnant. I really want the welfare to tell me what to do. I am confused and don’t know what to do,” the woman said.
The mother said her daughter had stopped attending the Wakapoa Secondary School after she was continuously failing in her studies. “She was in Grade Nine but after she didn’t doing good, I had to take her out of school,” she said.
A 13-year-old girl from the same village gave birth to twins at the Suddie Public Hospital on April 17, last. It was alleged that she was raped while on a vacation outside the community.
