The 15-year-old girl, who was rescued from an interior location earlier this year where she was being forced to work as a sex worker, is yet to be assisted by the state agency and while she accused officials of being unhelpful she in turn has been accused of having a bad attitude.
The child is now loath to return to the officials for help but according to Director of the Child Protection Agency Ann Greene, she needs to return and be placed in the Mahaica Shelter where she would be reassessed. She appealed to the child to return to the agency so she could be helped, since she could be treated as a juvenile delinquent if the police were to locate her and this is a situation Greene does not want.
The child was rescued by the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) earlier this year, but it only recently emerged that she was just 14 at the time and not 20 as she had claimed. The child had detailed to Sunday Stabroek a tragic life that in her own words saw her drifting from “pillar to post”. She lost her mother at a tender age
