The Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) is not doing enough in terms of ensuring that children who are removed from abusive situations are not returned to the same environment and further abused, according to head of the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha Dr Vindhya Persaud.
The Sabha opened a children’s home—the Bal Nivas—in Port Mourant, Berbice in 2014 and according to Dr Persaud, she has seen at least two cases where children were returned to the same abusive environment.
“These children come in bad shape, sometimes severely malnourished, withdrawn and suffering from all the effects of abuse and neglect and you have gotten them to a point and they go right back into the situation,” Persaud told the Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview.
