{"id":55687,"date":"2023-06-06T13:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55687"},"modified":"2023-06-06T13:24:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:24:26","slug":"a-special-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55687","title":{"rendered":"A special victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Newsday Editorial<br \/>\nJune 06, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55687\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/dvb.jpg' width='150' height='113' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Crime' \/><\/a>MANY are the reasons why a victim of sexual assault may not come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Some fear they will not be believed. Others are daunted by a criminal justice system plagued with delay. All of this is made worse when the perpetrator is a member of the protective services.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis is the backdrop against which we hold the puzzling position taken by Snr Supt Claire Guy-Alleyne at a media conference on Sunday to address a report which suggested a Venezuelan female had been raped by members of the Coast Guard in the vicinity of the Chaguaramas Heliport.<br \/>\n<em><A HREF=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2023\/06\/05\/a-special-victim\/\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday Editorial June 06, 2023 MANY are the reasons why a victim of sexual assault may not come forward. Some fear they will not be believed. Others are daunted by a criminal justice system plagued with delay. All of this is made worse when the perpetrator is a member of the protective services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,291,1,25],"tags":[85,44,359,1707],"class_list":["post-55687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-gender","category-general-tt","category-sex-crimes","tag-abuse","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-newsday","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55688,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55687\/revisions\/55688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}