Domestic Abuse/Violence Continues
Caribbean women are dying
needlessly because of out dated laws and almost totally useless legislation
against domestic violence. The latest victim is Rehanna Ali of Trinidad and
Tobago, who endured an abusive relationship for eight years before being
chopped to death by her abuser.
We heard the Barbados
Commissioner of Police, Darwin Dottin, remarking on a recent radio program, that the main object of the force when
investigating abuse is to protect the family. We say to the Commissioner, that
the only way to protect the family is to remove the abuser from the family or
remove the family from the abuser.
Any perpetrator of domestic violence
of any form has no rights to a family. We are in a very
dark place at this moment, and unless we act as a region to imprison abusers,
our women will continue to suffer the same fate as Rehanna Ali.
We invite you to read a full
story of this tragedy at the link below, from an article in the Trinidad and
Tobago Newsday paper.
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