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Apr 19, 2012 News
Residents of Blue Berry Hill, Linden are furious at the police for detaining a number of small children during yesterday’s protests in the community.
Ms. Abiola D’Andrade, a teacher, said that the actions by the police have left her seven-year-old daughter traumatized.
She said that police also detained two of her sisters, who are also teachers, after one of the siblings recorded the arrests on her mobile phone.
She alleged that the children, including at least one eight-year-old, were kept in custody for at least two hours and were only released after several of the protesters went to the Wismar Police Station.
Contacted last night, a police source confirmed that some children, aged between nine and 13, were taken into custody. However, the rank said that they were picked up in connection with a break and enter and simple larceny investigation.
Ms. D’Andrade told Kaieteur News that the arrests occurred around 11:00 hrs after police saw a number of tyres on the One Mile Public Road.
The ranks removed the tyres, but someone put them back. She said that some children who were playing in the area spotted the police ranks returning and ran away. Some of them were promptly apprehended and placed in a police vehicle.
Ms. D’Andrade alleged that she was informed that police ranks also ordered her seven-year-old daughter to go into the vehicle, but the child sought refuge in her grandmother’s home.
According to the teacher, two of her sisters were nearby and one of them used her mobile phone to video-tape the children in the police vehicle.
Kaieteur News was told that on seeing this, one of the ranks ordered the sister to go into the vehicle. The woman then gave another sister her phone and the ranks promptly detained both sisters.
They were all taken to the Wismar Police Station. However, on learning of the arrests, several angry protesters also turned up at the station. Police eventually released all the residents.
However, Ms. D’Andrade says that her little daughter is so traumatized that she has been vomiting and is fearful to sleep alone.
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