DPP to receive children’s home abuse report

The police team probing reports of sexual abuse at St Mary’s Children Home, have completed their investigation and is expected to submit a report to Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard, SC, next week.

Yesterday, ASP Matthew Andrews of the Child Protection Unit said that 18 children between the age of 4 to 15, interviewed and he along with his team of investigators are in the process of tying up loose ends before submitting their report and recommendations to DPP Gaspard. Andrews admitted some of the information coming from the children was, “startling.”

He said all 18 children are under the care and supervision of case workers from the Children’s Authority. Andrews refused to divulge any information relating to the investigation. The Children’s Authority moved in at the St Mary’s Children’s Home three weeks ago after information was made available to the Authority that children at the Home were being sexually abused by their peers. The children were taken to the Teaching Hospital in San Fernando for medical examination and officers of the Child Protection Unit were called in to investigate.