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Mother jailed for ignoring child’s sex abuse

Published on June 27, 2012 in Court, Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Police, Sex Crimes and Violence. 8 Comments Tags: , .

By Reshma Ragoonath
June 27, 2012 – guardian.co.tt

VictimA Gasparillo woman who turned a blind eye while her nine-year-old daughter was being sexually abused in their home in 2003 has been jailed for nine months. The woman, who was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, appeared before Magistrate Alicia Chankar in the San Fernando court. She was convicted of failing to report to the police that her daughter was being sexually abused by a 20-year-old man.
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A sad situation

Published on June 27, 2012 in Court, Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Police and Violence. 2 Comments Tags: , .

Newsday Editorial
Wednesday, June 27 2012

VictimTHERE’S certainly nothing to celebrate about the jailing of a mother for having abused her child, as one wonders how all her children will now fare without her.

We refer to the imposition of a three-year jail sentence on Kamla Ramcharan, 29, of Longdenville, Chaguanas, for burning the left hand of her daughter, Vishala Bikharrie, eight, on a hot tawah, in a supposed attempt to discipline the child for allegedly stealing $5 from a schoolmate.
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2 year old Aliyah beaten to death – not sexually assaulted

Published on April 11, 2012 in Court, Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Politics, Sex Crimes and Violence. 3 Comments Tags: , , .

UPDATE: April 12, 2012

VictimALLIYAH BEATEN, BLED TO DEATH
“According to the findings, Aliyah’s abdomen had been hit, causing her liver to rupture, which in turn caused her to bleed out through her private parts. Thankfully, there were no findings of sexual assault. The report also shows that she had several marks of violence on her skin,” Johnson said.
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MAN, 50, ON 11 SEX ABUSE CHARGES

Published on April 11, 2012 in Court, Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Police, Sex Crimes and Violence. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

By Laurel V Williams
April 11 2012 – newsday.co.tt

VictimA 50-year-old taxi driver was yesterday denied bail when he appeared in court charged with 11 counts of sexual assault on four boys who are between the ages of five and 16.

The accused Abdul Samad, also called Roger Danglade and Abu and who gave various addresses in Central Trinidad, appeared before Magistrate Anna Ryan in the Couva Magistrates’ Court.
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Rid the police of roughnecks

Published on March 10, 2012 in Complaints, Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Police, Security and Violence. 14 Comments Tags: , , .

By Raffique Shah
March 10, 2012

Raffique ShahTHE murder rate ticks along, one-a-day, like some health supplement or prescription drug, with the arrests rate lagging behind the body count, as has always been the case. Robberies and burglaries, many of them as brazen as ever, CCTV recordings notwithstanding, gallop at an alarming pace. Acts of violence, threats that could turn crimson (as in blood), and entire communities cowed by gun-toting bullies, now a national pastime, go mostly unreported, except, perhaps, to Ian Alleyne and Crime Watch.
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Principal Charged with Cruelty to Children

Published on February 3, 2012 in Crime in T&T, Education, Law, Schools and Violence. 5 Comments Tags: , .

By Nalinee Seelal
February 03, 2012 – newsday.co.tt

Arlene BlackmanPOLICE officers last night charged Arlene Blackman — Principal of Blackman’s Private School in Maraval — with two counts of Cruelty to Children, under the Children’s Act, Chap 46:01, Section III(I), for allegedly placing the head of two students in a toilet bowl at her school and flushing it.
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Joker wild in Cabinet

Published on January 22, 2012 in Crime in T&T, Death Penalty, General T&T, Law, People's Partnership, Politics and Violence. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

By Raffique Shah
January 21, 2012

Raffique ShahJUSTICE Minister Herbert Volney invariably comes across as a joker in the theatre of the macabre…a kind of black humour specialist.

He seems not to know whether his role is to make people laugh, cry or have a compelling urge to throttle him. He cannot decide if he is an entertainer, intimidator or Soca Monarch contender.
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Arson in Laventille: 4 Dead

Published on December 21, 2011 in Crime in T&T, General T&T, Media and Violence. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , .

4 DEAD, 7 INJURED

By Sasha Harrinanan and Alexander Bruzual
December 21, 2011 – newsday.co.tt

CrimeScreams for help from women and children trapped in a raging fire filled the night in Trou Macaque, Laventille where four people burnt to death and seven were injured as they leapt from the balconies on the top floor of a five-storey HDC apartment building which had been firebombed.

Tenants and neighbours tried in vain to help the families living in two of the top floor apartments of Building 2, one of which had been doused in gasolene and set on fire in a deliberate attack by a brother of the occupants who lived there at about 1 am yesterday.
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Detaining ‘big fish, small fish’

Published on December 5, 2011 in Crime in T&T, Drug Trade, General T&T, People's Partnership, Politics, Protest and Violence. 6 Comments Tags: , , , .

By Derren Joseph
December 05, 2011

Derren JosephBritain’s Channel 4 aired a documentary called Trinidad: Guns, Drugs and Secrets. On the night in question, I deliberately avoided watching it. The following day, as I signed onto Facebook, I saw links to it on so many profiles that I ended up watching the whole thing—twice. The two interviews that I found most interesting were the one with the resident from Laventille and the one with the Security Adviser to the Prime Minister. For me, these two represented the opposing sides of this ongoing debate over the state of emergency (SoE) and the current Government’s approach to crime.
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PM’s Credibility at Stake

Published on November 27, 2011 in Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Opposition Party, People's Partnership, Politics and Violence. 16 Comments Tags: , , , .

By Raffique Shah
November 27, 2011

Raffique ShahPRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s credibility is on the line with allegations of a plot to assassinate her and three of her ministers. This latest drama, coming at the tail end of a contentious State of Emergency, has drawn scepticism from many quarters. The PM and her security chiefs must now deliver the heads of the would-be assassins on the proverbial platter, or face loss of face and much more debilitating political fallout.
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