Anastasia Cunningham, News Coordinator

Child molested, believed pregnant for grand uncle

An 11-year-old girl was on Monday admitted to the St Ann’s Bay Hospital, reportedly pregnant for her 63-year-old grand uncle, who she lived with in Carlton Mountain, Claremont in St Ann.

Sitting at the hospital in tears yesterday, the child’s mother related to The Gleaner that on Friday her daughter came home complaining of a severe bellyache and headache.

“Me make her some ginger tea with cerassee and tell her to lie down. But whole weekend she a bawl fi har belly and she nah eat anything, so me decide to carry her to clinic Monday,” said the 31-year-old mother.

She said the doctor at the Claremont Clinic was concerned after examining the child and told the mother she needed to do a pregnancy test.

“Me ask har how she mean pregnancy test and she only 11 years old,” said the mother.

The test came back positive and the mother said she was told the child was three to four months pregnant. It was also revealed that the child had fresh vaginal scarring which indicated penetration within the last three days. She also had an infection.

The police were called in and after prompting, the child revealed that it was the common-law husband of her grand aunt who was responsible. Around 5 p.m. on Monday, the accused was arrested at his home.

“She tell the police and the doctor say it going on for a long time now, so me ask why she never tell me and she say him threaten her,” said the child’s father, who declared he was sickened after listening to his daughter describe in details of what was done to her.

“When she see him come to the station she start tremble,” added the father, who lives in Moneague.

The 11-year-old was taken to the St Ann’s Bay Hospital and admitted. However, the mother said she was told a second pregnancy test came back negative. The child was scheduled to be sedated for a procedure to be performed last night.

Her parents said they still cannot get her to eat.

The child, the second of three for her mother, had been living with her grandaunt and the accused since she was nine months old. Her mother, who was living in Kingston for a few years, moved back to Carlton Mountain in February.

“A them raise me so me trust them that much to raise me child,” said the still tearful mom.

“After everything happen, the only thing she [grand aunt] say to me is to ask me fi the $1,000 me owe har.”

COMMUNITY IN SHOCK

A visit to the Carlton Mountain community saw residents gathered discussing the incident in shock and disbelief.

Several were upset that the police had acted so quickly because they had planned to deliver their own justice. They disclosed that it was after the man’s arrest that they heard about the incident and more information came to light.

“A lucky them lucky, ’cause a bun wi did a guh bun down dat,” one angry man stated bringing back memories of a mob killing in Trelawny early Monday morning.

“The whole family must be arrested ’cause them know what him up to an uphold the slackness. Them know is long time him doing it and is not the first,” stated a resident.

“Arrest? A wey yuh a talk ’bout. A beat we fi beat them,” the man countered.

“I am very sad and disappointed. I have not slept from last night,” said another.

They described the child as withdrawn, hardly speaking to anyone.

“We always wonder how she always keep to herself and don’t really talk to anybody,” a resident said.

The grand aunt is denying the claim, disclosing that based on the living arrangements in the three-bedroom home shared by five of them, it was not possible.

“Me nuh leave her alone so me nuh see how him coulda do that,” she said.

“When me ask him ’bout it, him say him nuh know nothing bout that and all them have to do is a DNA test to see what is what, she said.

The principal and guidance counsellor from the school the 11-year-old attends also came to visit the grand aunt.

“To say we are shocked and surprised is an understatement. We did not suspect anything like this. In fact, she had just mastered her Grade Four Literacy Test,” said the principal.

“This is a close-knit community. Everyone knows each other. I always say everyone in Carlton Mountain related by blood or religion.”

The residents agreed, but noted that for the close to 40 years they have known the accused, he always kept to himself.

“Him is a man wey just go work and stay in or work him farm. Him nuh really talk to nobody, suh we really don’t know him so well,” stated a neighbour.

A senior police officer with the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse’s St Ann’s Bay office confirmed the incident, stating that the accused was now in custody while they conduct their investigation and await the medical report.

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Horror in St.James! 8-y-o among five females brutally raped by gunmen
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

IRWIN, St James — An eight-year-old was among five females who were attacked and viciously raped by two gunmen in the community of Irwin on Monday night.
The young girl, according to a source, had to undergo emergency surgery yesterday as a result of the ordeal.
The ages of the other victims, the Jamaica Observer has learnt, are 14, 16, 23, and 28.
According to the police, the incident happened at approximately 10:00 pm when two men — one of whom was armed with a firearm — went to the house where the girl was with the four other females.
The heartless thugs gained access into the house after they held onto one of the occupants, through a window, and demanded that the door be opened.
All five were held at gunpoint, tied up and raped.
Police said the men also robbed the occupants of an undetermined sum of cash and other valuables before escaping.
The police have since launched an investigation into the horrific incident.
Last night, Superintendent Gladys Brown, who heads the Kingston and St Andrew branch of the Centre for the Investigation Of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA), said she was shocked by the incident.
Although admitting that she had little information on the incident, she said it appeared a “deliberate act of violence to show power”.
“I am really wondering what is happening, I have never seen anything like this,” she told the Observer.
“It sounds like someone is flexing their muscles, so to speak, because that’s the most I can say as to what could have caused persons to brutalise women and children like that,” Brown added.
Opposition spokesperson on youth, sports, gender affairs, entertainment and culture, Olivia “Babsy’ Grange, described the incident “as one of the most shocking, horrific and despicable crimes committed against Jamaican women”.
According to Grange, “the crime is yet another example of the diminishing respect and love for women in the society, especially girls, when an eight-year-old can be so brutally abused and pregnant women are being killed by both criminals and those whom they expect to protect them.
“This latest act is also a glaring example of the breakdown of law and order in the country; and unless something is done, and done quickly, we will be facing another year of record murders and sexual crimes against women and children in the society,” she added.
Meanwhile, efforts by the Observer to contact Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna for comment were unsuccessful last night.

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