People should be taking stock of themselves, in this rounds, instead
of simply pointing fingers in the opposite direction.
Even though the police deserve to be taken through the mill for
callously refusing to help the woman -- in whatever way they could
-- search for her missing child (is it because she’s poor
and Black?) they cannot be used as the excuse.
Obviously, by the time the mother made the report to the Couva Police
Station, the child may have already been dead, given the fact that
news reports indicate that his body was already decomposing by the
time relatives made the gruesome discovery, two days after he went
missing.
So, I have been trying to pick sense out of the bits and pieces
of information that have been coming out in the newspapers and have
concluded that Pauline was asleep on the Sunday afternoon that her
six-year-old went missing.
Now, whether you live in town or country, Port of Spain or New York,
a six-year-old is considered a baby and should not be left on his
own.
Nowhere in the past week have I heard that the mother asked the
neighbour to keep an eye on him, while she took the afternoon nap.
Therefore, I am left to assume that the child was unsupervised,
in the open yard, while his mother slept.
Knowing country life, there is no parent whom I know of would leave
his/her child to the mercy of the village, not in this here time.
Instead, a parent ought to specifically ask the neighbour to keep
an eye on the child and the neighbour, if the child is at his home,
should also, whether the parent is aware or not, be aware of what’s
happening in her yard.
Pauline, in one of her television interviews, said that she warned
Sean not to speak to strangers.
Sadly, she failed to reveal whether she had drilled into his head
that he should never leave home without letting her know.
In any event, once she became drowsy and knew that she would be
taking a nap -- if the events really did unfold like that -- she
should have locked the doors and kept the child inside, or, as I
mentioned before, made a specific request for him to be looked after.
These are simple precautions that should be exercised since buggery,
and all kinds of other gruesome sex crimes, are not confined to
high society where it has been breeding for decades.
Remember Anglican Priest Father John Sewell who introduced his vice
to a number of young boys?
And Hans Boos, the curator of the Emperor Valley Zoo, who landed
in hot waters with an extensive library of pornographic material
which included sex with children and animals?
What about the high society folks who were responsible for romping
on Akiel Chambers, possibly smothering him to death?
Big men -- who are not necessarily homosexuals -- have been preying
on little boys for years and we now have full-fledged child prostitutes.
It is all (unwittingly?) sanctioned by the very same society of
people who have been creating campaigns and putting up websites,
to make Sean Luke a martyr.
Now, they are all ready to lynch the two accused teenagers whose
parents are obviously as ill-equipped as Pauline to deal with the
reality that has busted open on them.
They, too, may have turned a blind eye on their children, leaving
them to their own device, living in the dream world that they can
do nothing wrong.
And, most importantly, hoping that the money which Education Minister
Hazel Manning is wasting on promoting an abstinence programme for
teens, would reach the children.
But it is too far gone; just read the article below and know that
what applies to the US is relevant to TnT.
Sean’s buggery and murder is merely an extension of the absolute
debauchery on Manzanilla Beach a few weeks ago!
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