KEVON FELMINE

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

A teenag­er and two young men are ex­pect­ed to be ques­tioned by po­lice about the preg­nan­cy of a 12-year-old school­girl.

The Child Pro­tec­tion Unit of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice is in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports that the girl had been sub­ject­ed to two years of sex­u­al abuse by rel­a­tives and neigh­bours.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the girl’s 17-year-old cousin and two of his friends, ages 19 and 20, had sex with the girl ear­li­er this year. It is not yet known who is the fa­ther of the un­born child. The girl was liv­ing with her moth­er in se­vere pover­ty at the time of the al­leged at­tacks.

The se­ries of events on­ly came to light when the girl told her fa­ther, who was re­leased from prison two months in­to her preg­nan­cy, about her ex­pe­ri­ences. She was tak­en to the Princes Town Po­lice Sta­tion where a state­ment was tak­en, then to the Princes Town Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty where it was con­firmed she was preg­nant. She was then placed in­to the care of her fa­ther.

Sev­er­al peo­ple were ques­tioned about the abuse of the child but no one had been ar­rest­ed up to yes­ter­day. Po­lice said in­ves­ti­ga­tors are still­ing piec­ing the case to­geth­er and more wit­ness­es have to be in­ter­viewed.