Raise your voice St Lucia says while many continue to be angry in the moment, about cases of sexual abuse, this time with the alleged sexual abuse of a six (6) year old child, there is no sustained demand for long term actions to create public education and awareness and to amend existing laws relating to rape and abuse of innocent children is consistently absent from the conversation.
Rape and sexual abuse of children both male and female is widespread, with over 400 alleged cases of rape and sexual abuse so far for this year. The organization says to further compound this horrible situation our Criminal Code refers to rape of our children as Sexual Intercourse.
Raise you Voice St Lucia has proposed a three (3) year joint public education and awareness campaign by the Departments of Education, Social Justice and the Ministry of Home Affairs, Justice and National Security be considered to educate the citizens on this dangerous and often times hidden evil within our society.
The organization says at a time when we have more female parliamentarians, we are yet to hear a strong, sustained and powerful voice of representation for women and children nor strong condemnation or any promised action to systematically deal with the violence women and children continue to endure.
It is calling on the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia to address this as a matter of urgency by providing the necessary finances to the mentioned departments to create public awareness and to ensure the capacity of the justice system is upgraded to deal with violations against our women and children.
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