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A ten year mother lost her child three weeks after delivery, the father is believed to be in his mid 30s.
The little girl's father told The Star that” the child delivered the baby in December and the baby died three weeks later. The angry father said that he was not even told about the baby's death until two weeks after”. Number of questions has surfaced as a result of the tragic happening; one such is that of proper parenting. According to the father as cited in the star, his daughter fainted at school and was rushed to the hospital when it was revealed that the child was seven months pregnant. It is clearing no one notice that the child was pregnant even with just two more months before delivery. This is just one of the many cases of carnal abuse that affect the youths of Jamaica. Carnal Abuse can be defined as sexual intercourse with a person (girl or boy) who has not reached the age of consent (even if both parties participate willingly). As a nation we can no longer sit by and put our headings in the sand and allow a few hoodlums to rampage country and destroy the further.
Who is responsibility to protect the further leaders and productive citizens of our country, Jamaica land we love? It is the responsibility of all of us to do so. Under the Child Care and Protection 2004, there is a commission that was established in the parliament of Jamaica known as the Children's Advocate under the Child Development Agency (CDA). Under the act there are a number of professionals that you can report cases of abuse , these include a physician, nurse, dentist or other and health or mental health professional; (b) an administrator of a hospital facility;(c) a school principal, teacher or other teaching professional;(d) a social worker or other social service professional;(e) an owner, operator or employee of a child day care center or other child care institution;(f) a guidance counsel; or(g) any other person who by virtue of his employment or occupation has a responsibility to discharge a duty of care towards a child. These professionals are not hard to find, we need to tell them what we know as must tell what they know to the CDA.
Individually that is what each of us can do, but on a larger scale the building of the parent’s capacity to manage there child and to ensure that the environment that their child or children is raise in is in keeping with Jamaica Vision 2030 plan, “the place of choice to live, work, raise families and do business”. Vision 2030 cannot be realized if we continue to deprive our youths of a further. It hard to even think that one in their right mind would commit such an act but that the reality that we live, and sad to say but their maybe other cases that have not been reported. Jamaicans, it our country let us work together to protect and to preserve the innocents of our talented children.
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