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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Teen raped by man in police uniform

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Sascha Wilson
589 days ago
20231205

Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) di­rec­tor David West is urg­ing a teenag­er who re­port­ed that she was raped by a man wear­ing a po­lice uni­form to reach out to the au­thor­i­ty.

“PCA has no knowl­edge of this in­ci­dent. How­ev­er, we urge the vic­tim to come to the PCA or con­tact the PCA to make a com­plaint,” West said in a mes­sen­ger af­ter he was con­tact­ed for com­ment on the mat­ter

The as­sault oc­curred over the week­end in south Trinidad. The 16-year-old girl was at a bazaar at a pri­ma­ry school around 4 pm on Sat­ur­day when a man dressed in a po­lice uni­form ap­proached and spoke with her.

Two hours lat­er, he re­turned in a car and dressed in the po­lice uni­form pants and a T-shirt and of­fered to take the teenag­er for some­thing to eat. She agreed.

He then took the teen to a se­clud­ed area where he had sex with her in the car. Af­ter­wards, the sus­pect dropped the teenag­er at a junc­tion in Moru­ga.

Some­time af­ter 10 pm, the girl’s moth­er took her to the Moru­ga Po­lice Sta­tion to make a re­port. A fe­male of­fi­cer then ac­com­pa­nied the girl and her moth­er to the Princes Town Health Fa­cil­i­ty where she was med­ical­ly ex­am­ined.

Con­tact­ed about whether the sus­pect was, in fact, an of­fi­cer and whether he was de­tained, TTPS pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer ASP Joanne Archie said the re­port had just come to her knowl­edge, and she would in­quire fur­ther. How­ev­er, up to late yes­ter­day she had not pro­vid­ed any ad­di­tion­al in­for­ma­tion.

The Moru­ga po­lice for­ward­ed the re­port to the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit.

At­tempts to con­tact Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher and Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau head Snr Supt Suzette Mar­tin were un­suc­cess­ful.


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