A four-year-old boy who was rescued over a year ago by the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) from a situation of neglect, is finally beginning to trust people again, Director Ann Greene said, while relating that the issue of child protection is an ongoing one and every day a different story is told.
John (not his real name) is currently in the care of the CC&PA. It was on a on a quiet night, responding to a report, that the CC&PA went into a house where John, then three years old, had been left in the ‘care’ of his grandfather. Neglected by his mother, who herself was a victim of an abusive and racial family, he was never cared for since his grandfather was an alcoholic. He was given food by neighbours on a regular basis, but not much else.
On the night of his rescue, CC&PA officers found him in a rat-infested home, sitting in a corner with a
