Dear Editor,
I refer to an article in the Guyana Chronicle (September 13) online edition under the headline ‘Deflowering of children must stop’.
I wonder if the person who made this statement stopped for a moment to think about how utterly inhumane the statement was. I wonder if they have ever had to speak to, hold or comfort a victim of sexual assault or rape, particularly a child.
We live in a country, in a world, where little bodies are broken, battered and laid to waste by adults through physical and sexual abuse. We also live in a world where powerful people protect abusers, where the media is often used as a tool of manipulate and somewhere along the way the most vulnerable in our society are rendered voiceless, their suffering minimized.
Our children are not flowers to be plucked.
I propose another headline: ‘The Government adopts a no tolerance policy on the rape and sexual abuse of children’.
Yours faithfully,
Nadia Sagar
