Man held over 14-yr-old daughter’s pregnancy

A Wakapoa, Pomeroon River man is currently in police custody following reports that he had impregnated his 14-year-old daughter, who is currently some five months pregnant and hospitalized.

However, according to the girl’s mother, her daughter has repeatedly said that her father was not responsible for her pregnancy and she is asking the authorities to conduct a thorough investigation.

“I did not know that my daughter get rape or she was pregnant,” the woman said. “She didn’t tell me anything until when her belly started showing. That is when she tell me that one late afternoon, she was going home when someone hold her down and raped her. She say that she didn’t talk because she was frighten that her father would beat her