Bruises sustained by the feminine pupil who was allegedly raped at Oracabessa Excessive Faculty in St Mary on Monday.
ORACABESSA, St Mary — As outrage intensifies over the alleged rape of a pupil at a St Mary highschool, the sufferer’s household has opted to drag her from the general public schooling system.
“The household is fearful that, if she is shipped to a different faculty the incident could occur once more,” a spokesperson instructed the Jamaica Observer on situation of anonymity Thursday, including that the kid will likely be home-schooled as she stays severely traumatised.
The Jamaica Constabulary Drive (JCF), within the meantime, confirmed that it has obtained a report of the incident.
“As a precept, we do not give public details about rape instances in relation to kids… We do not give particulars about it. Essentially the most I can let you know is that we’ve got obtained a report and the matter is being investigated,” stated Senior Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay, head of the JCF’s Company Communications Unit.
She added that she isn’t conscious of anybody being arrested in reference to the incident. It is usually not but clear if the perpetrator is enrolled on the faculty the place the younger woman was allegedly attacked.
A supply near the sufferer’s household, earlier this week, acknowledged {that a} male attired in a khaki uniform reportedly held a pair of scissors on the pupil’s neck and compelled her into a rest room the place he allegedly raped her through the faculty’s afternoon shift. One other pupil reportedly discovered the sufferer bare on the lavatory ground. She was ultimately taken to Port Maria Hospital for remedy.
Amid continued investigation by the JCF, in addition to the college’s administration, the incident is sparking outrage in the neighborhood.
Steerage counsellor at one other faculty within the parish, Sheldon Kidd, who can be councillor for the Oracabessa Division, has referred to as for the group to assist search out the perpetrator.
“The act that was dedicated by the perpetrator was callous and ugly. I condemn it and I want that the perpetrator will likely be discovered. I’m begging members of the college group and the general public, if you understand something, please inform the police or someone from the college group in order that the perpetrator might be caught,” he instructed the Observer on Thursday.
“We live now in a society of ethical decadence. We wish to ship a message when the perpetrator is caught that he will get the total brunt of the legislation in order that no person would wish to do one thing like that sooner or later,” Kidd stated.
“It have to be traumatic. As a steerage counsellor I can relate to what the scholar goes by way of. The trauma is overwhelming and it’ll have an effect on her for all times… I can think about the magnitude of harm that she has felt and will likely be feeling,” he stated.
Kidd lamented that it isn’t the primary time criminals have struck on the faculty the place the incident allegedly occurred. He stated surveillance cameras are wanted urgently.
“In 2002 the dean of self-discipline at that college was attacked by a lot of boys. They beat him. From that point the administration of the college has requested for some cameras to be put in in order that they might have proof and know what is occurring across the faculty. If that had been finished then we’d have not less than had some thought of who the perpetrator [of the alleged rape] is,” Kidd reasoned. “I’m anticipating the powers that be to put in these cameras. We don’t want this merciless act to occur once more to anyone else and so we’re begging for the cameras to be put in.”
