Three female students of a secondary school were detained at the Fort Wellington Police Station after they were found in an abandoned house at Hopetown, West Berbice on Tuesday with three men from the village.

The men were also taken into custody. Officers from the Probation & Welfare Department of Region Five received a call during school hours on Tuesday about the students being locked up in the house with the men.

The officers immediately contacted the police who they accompanied to the house. They caught the girls and the men who were all partly dressed, drinking red wine. An officer from the department told this newspaper one of the men jumped out of the house upon seeing the lawmen and escaped. The officer said too that the girls’ parents were informed and were shocked. The girls, who left home to write the end of term tests at school, were released into the custody of their parents on Tuesday evening.

According to the officer the students changed their uniforms in the minibus before being dropped off at the house. Residents nevertheless recognized them as students and made the report.

The residents said this is not the first time female students were locked up in the house with males and recalled that female students from another school were also engaged in the act.