The Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) group yesterday led a protest against Mayor Patricia Chase-Green, Town Clerk Royston King and councillor Sherod Duncan, and called for their removal and arrest after their failure to immediately report an allegation of sexual assault on a minor to the police.
Don Singh, of the MAPM, said that the group’s stance is that the officials acted “out of order” and as “accessories after the fact” in the presumed assault by taking matters into their own hands, rather than calling in the police and social services.
The nine-person silent protest began around midday yesterday across from the City Hall. Also present were representatives from Citizens against Rape and Help and Shelter.
“We are saying that the Mayor, the Town Clerk, the Chairman of the Legal Affairs committee should be arrested as accessories after the fact and the police should do their due diligence. It is ridiculous. We can’t have in City Hall rape occurring and then investigations—they sit on it for two months. Two months. What, because the child is poor? Because he’s a street child? What is it? Where are we going with this? We need to send a strong message that no one is above the law and if you do wrong, you will be penalised for it,” Singh stated.
