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Minister:Webster-Roy: Devil is currently busy in T&T
Minister with the responsibility of Gender and Child Affairs in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) Ayanna Webster-Roy says she believes the devil is currently busy in Trinidad and Tobago.
“Unfortunately, during the month of April, as has been my experience since I’ve been minister, I don’t know why but every April we tend to see a spike in child abuse and I often say that the devil busy,” she said.
The Minister made the comment during a brochure handover and distribution ceremony for material on child abuse at the Office of the Prime Minister at St Clair Avenue, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.
Webster-Roy said every year as her ministry ramps up awareness campaigns against child abuse, there seems to be an increase. She said, unfortunately, as attempts are made to educate people in various communities about child abuse, there’s news of another child hurt, killed, or a family in distress.
For the month so far, a woman who was captured verbally and physically abusing two children in San Juan has been arrested and charged with cruelty, four-year-old Amarah Lallite was beheaded by a man close to her, an eight-year-old girl was hospitalised after she was accidentally shot in the head with a rifle by another child and the Children’s Authority had to remove a child from her parent’s care after she was recorded using an object resembling a gun. There was also an incident late last month in which a woman was charged with abusing a child.
Webster-Roy revealed that she started to panic when she heard what had happened to Amarah and said she would not know how to cope in such a situation.
Minister with the responsibility of Gender and Child Affairs in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) Ayanna Webster-Roy says she believes the devil is currently busy in Trinidad and Tobago.
“Unfortunately, during the month of April, as has been my experience since I’ve been minister, I don’t know why but every April we tend to see a spike in child abuse and I often say that the devil busy,” she said.
The Minister made the comment during a brochure handover and distribution ceremony for material on child abuse at the Office of the Prime Minister at St Clair Avenue, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.
Webster-Roy said every year as her ministry ramps up awareness campaigns against child abuse, there seems to be an increase. She said, unfortunately, as attempts are made to educate people in various communities about child abuse, there’s news of another child hurt, killed, or a family in distress.
For the month so far, a woman who was captured verbally and physically abusing two children in San Juan has been arrested and charged with cruelty, four-year-old Amarah Lallite was beheaded by a man close to her, an eight-year-old girl was hospitalised after she was accidentally shot in the head with a rifle by another child and the Children’s Authority had to remove a child from her parent’s care after she was recorded using an object resembling a gun. There was also an incident late last month in which a woman was charged with abusing a child.
Webster-Roy revealed that she started to panic when she heard what had happened to Amarah and said she would not know how to cope in such a situation.
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