‘…the facts in this case disclose a horrendous account of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment which ground my decision for finding that there has been a violation of (the boy’s) human rights generally to be treated with dignity and respect as a child and as a person. In my opinion, therefore the torture and cruel and inhuman treatment meted out to (the boy) has demonstrated and established an absolute and flagrant disregard for his constitutional rights’
Justice Roxane George described the case of the 14-year-old whose genitals were burnt in a police station in 2009 as constituting torture and she ruled on Friday that there had been a violation of his fundamental human rights.
The decision by the judge formally defining his treatment as torture is seen as important as the lower court case had collapsed without a ruling. Her recourse to
