Charged with rape of 14-year-old
CONSTABLE Ganesh Rajcoomar of Grove, East Bank Demerara appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday after he was charged for allegedly raping a 14-year-old child.The 25-year-old accused had the charge read to him by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan following advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions, whose chambers had been engaged in the matter for some time.
The charge alleges that during the month of October, 2015, he sexually penetrated a 14-year-old child at a hotel in Georgetown. He was not represented by an attorney during his first court appearance, but reporters were blocked from entering the courtroom as the matter was held in-camera.The officer was ordered to post $200,000 bail and return to court on February 24.
The policeman who is attached to an East Bank Demerara station is being accused of raping the teen shortly after she went to him and reported that she had been abducted and had managed to escape.
It was the Guyana Chronicle newspaper which first reported on this matter and has been in constant contact with the victim, her mother and the relevant agencies who are engaged in the matter.
The mother had visited this publication’s office on numerous occasions seeking updates on the status of the investigation on numerous occasions.
Earlier last week, when the mother of the child came to this newspaper we reported that she was crying out for justice, knocking on all doors to ensure justice for her 14-year-old daughter. Since the incident the mother has been visiting the Police, Child Care and Protection Agency and even the Chambers of the Director of Public prosecution for updates on the matter. Each time the woman visited the Chronicle she broke down in tears. She would often say that while her child might have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, the policeman who allegedly took advantage of her ought not to have done so since she went to him for protection when the incident took place.
The problems for the child and her mother began after the child went missing from home for a few days. She was later found and the police and the child care protection agency were immediately called.
The initial investigation involving the teen started with a case of investigating her abduction as she was reportedly being held against her will. But when the matter of the alleged rape committed by the policeman came up, there was no other mention of the investigations into the abduction which was being conducted by the Timehri Police Station.
The teenager had proven to be a virgin before she went missing and that information is with the police as that test was conducted at the Brickdam Police Station.It was also confirmed that the Brickdam Police clinic did another test on the child after she resurfaced after being missing and it was then that she was found to no longer have her virginity. In her statements to the police she reportedly cleared her abductor of rape but did place him at the center of her disappearance which amounts to abduction as she was being held against her will.
Days after the policeman who reportedly raped the girl was picked up and placed under close arrest, his sister who serves as a doctor at the Georgetown Public Hospital, reportedly approached the mother of the teenager to settle the matter.That conversation was caught on tape and provided to this publication.
