Philipsburg:--- The relatives of an 11-year old child are furious with police whom they said arrested a Jamaican national who allegedly raped the child. The relatives who spoke to SMN News on the condition of anonymity said the incident occurred Saturday evening and the man as well as the child’s mother was arrested after she assaulted him.
However, police did not take a statement from the mother over the weekend since according to them there was no juvenile detective on duty. The young mother was asked to report to the police station on Monday, which she did, the child was taken to a medical doctor where a rape kit was taken. The relatives identified the alleged rapist as L.D and they said that he has been molesting the child over three years now. According to the aunt of the child, her sister was not living on St. Maarten when the abuse was taken place but sometime last year, she filed a report against the man because he molested her child and she had also assaulted him. The relatives claimed that the child’s guardian as well as her grandmother with whom she is living has been covering up for her husband. They said the woman told the child not to tell police all that happened because she preferred the alleged rapist be deported and not face criminal charges for his act. To date the prosecutor’s office has no information on the case, even though Assistant Chief Commissioner of Police Ademar Doran said they have an official report against the suspect and action would soon be taken.