CHILD CARE OFFICERS are getting immediate back-up from the police on child abuse and molestation cases as the island’s child protection agency responds to faults in its system.
The Child Care Board (CCB), the island’s child protection agency, must inform the police about all suspected cases on the day of the reports, Minister of Social Care Steve Blackett said yesterday at a Press conference.
The action is all part of the authorities’ response to the recent heart-breaking case of three siblings who were eventually rescued from a household in St Andrew and taken overseas after years of reported sexual and physical abuse.
The investigation by the SUNDAY SUN caused public outrage, much of which was directed at the CCB, which was still feeling the pressure from the case of 12-year-old Shemar Weekes, an apparent suicide victim, and six-year-old Jahan King, who died under suspicious conditions.
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