Kevon Felmine

Sex crimes against women con­tin­ued in­to 2013 as a 13-year-old school­girl be­came the lat­est re­port­ed rape vic­tim af­ter she was ab­duct­ed by three men on Tues­day. The in­ci­dent hap­pened around 1.30 pm as the child left school and was look­ing for trans­port to re­turn to her Oropouche home.

The girl, a Form Two stu­dent, told po­lice she could not say how many men had raped her or even where she was tak­en be­cause her ab­duc­tors had put a bag over her head. Last year, 1,020 sex­u­al of­fences were re­port­ed ac­cord­ing to po­lice sta­tis­tics, the sec­ond high­est fig­ure over a five-year pe­ri­od. On New Year's Day a 71-year-old Clax­ton Bay moth­er be­came the first vic­tim for the new year.

On Tues­day, ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the child got in­to a pur­ple car at Knox Street, San Fer­nan­do, and asked to be tak­en to Li­brary Cor­ner. How­ev­er, the dri­ver passed her stop and as he drove down Har­ris Prom­e­nade, two oth­er men en­tered the back seat from both sides of the car. They then put the bag over her head, held some­thing to her neck and told her if she moved or made a sound, they would kill her.

The girl told po­lice she was tak­en to an un­known lo­ca­tion where some of her cloth­ing was re­moved and she was raped. Po­lice said af­ter the child was dropped off, she walked home and lat­er went to the Oropouche Po­lice Post to make a re­port. No one has been ar­rest­ed. WPC Roberts is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.