There is a need to address the cause of sexual violence in Guyana and particularly the growing incidence involving female children.
This is according to Director of Public Prosecutions Shalimar Ali-Hack, who told attendees at the 19th Turkeyen and Tain Talks on Thursday at the Pegasus Hotel that 177 of 301 cases scheduled to be heard in the June assizes for Demerara relate to sexual offences; of that number 126 or 50% involve a child victim.
“The girl child is being abused by both trusted and non-trusted persons in her life both inside and outside of the home including institutions of learning…this is very serious and very disturbing,” Ali-Hack noted adding that her office has reviewed files “for a child as young as nine months and for adult males as old as in their 60s.”
