The Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of T&T (TATT) has for­ward­ed a com­plaint to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions re­gard­ing the po­ten­tial breach of the Sex­u­al Of­fences Act and a video clip shown by CCN TV6 dis­play­ing the rape of a child. This was re­vealed in a news re­lease from the au­thor­i­ty on Mon­day. The video clip was aired dur­ing the Crime Watch pro­gramme host­ed by Ian Al­leyne on Oc­to­ber 25 and 26. Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease, sev­er­al oth­er com­plaints had been re­ceived by the au­thor­i­ty re­gard­ing the same pro­gramme.

A let­ter al­so was sent to CCN TV6 ad­vis­ing the sta­tion that aside from po­ten­tial­ly break­ing the law, it may have al­so bro­ken the con­ces­sion grant­ed to it by TATT. The let­ter states that as the gov­ern­ing body for telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and broad­cast­ing sec­tors in T&T, TATT was re­spon­si­ble for reg­u­lat­ing the com­mu­ni­ca­tions and broad­cast­ing sec­tors. The re­lease not­ed that al­though the Broad­cast­ing Code had not yet been es­tab­lished, TV6 had been en­cour­aged to abide by the pro­vi­sions of the draft code. It had ad­vised TV6 to "have its hosts con­scious of the pro­vi­sions out­lined in the draft Broad­cast­ing Code and to ex­er­cise cau­tion while per­form­ing their du­ties as TV talk show hosts."

The re­lease ad­vised that the au­thor­i­ty would con­tin­ue its in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mat­ter. Aside from warn­ing the tele­vi­sion sta­tion or­gan­i­sa­tions like the Coali­tion against Do­mes­tic Vi­o­lence against Women and the Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (MATT) have con­demned the broad­cast­ing of the video. Chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer at CCN, Dawn Thomas, could not be reached for com­ment. Mes­sages left for her were not re­turned up to late yes­ter­day.