Stating that “two wrongs don’t make a right,” human rights activist Karen de Souza has defended Red Thread’s activism on behalf of 19-year-old baby sitter Fatima Martin, who was sentenced to 60 months in prison after pleading guilty to assaulting the infant child of a magistrate and her husband.
Red Thread and a number of other organisations, including the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) and the Guyana Women Miners Organi-sation (GWMO), came out in defence of the young woman but have been roundly criticized for taking the side of a ‘child abuser.’ Some citizens had recently taken to protesting for the rights of the child outside the GHRA’s building.
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