Guyana is in a serious crisis when it comes to sex abuse among children and there is also the frightening situation of oral sex and sexual touching being pervasive among nursery-level children, while the majority of the girls in their late teens found in state homes are there because of sexual abuse, a roundtable discussion convened by ChildLink Inc heard recently.
So pervasive is the practice among nursery-aged children that Kean Chase, Project Officer of ChildLink, informed that the organisation received a call from an educational official responsible for the nursery level in a region seeking intervention.
It may have been this revelation that prompted a single mother to inform, in tears, that
