The Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) rescued six females from 14 Miles in Region Seven over the weekend and two policemen are now under close arrest after they were accused of raping two of them at the Sherima Police Station some months ago as a means of giving their alleged traffickers a free pass to the backdam.
President of the GWMO Simona Broomes yesterday told Stabroek News that a confrontation was held with one of the females and one of the officers as soon as they were brought to the Bartica Police Station from the backdam. One of the alleged traffickers was also brought out of the backdam and is now in police custody.
Five of the females, ages 26, 20, 18, 16, and 14, are now in state custody and the sixth, who was only taken into the Backdam on Friday by her father and was staying with the manager of her mother’s shop, was returned to her mother who
