Teen seeks justice from rooftops over alleged outpost rape

Reporters and civilians gathered around the police van in which the teen was placed after his arrest.

The teen boy, who has accused three police officers of raping him at a police outpost, was arrested yesterday after he climbed on to the roofs of two Robb Street properties, including the Stabroek News building, to evade an abusive relative who claimed he had fabricated the allegations.

The young man’s actions attracted hundreds of spectators who flooded the street, screaming at him not to jump even as he cried out that he was not a criminal and that he was scared that the police would hurt him.

It took responding firefighters and police nearly an hour to seize him after he had stopped pacing and seemed