Boy, 16, allegedly sodomised at Police Outpost

- ranks to be placed under close arrest Police were last night preparing to place three ranks under close arrest following allegations that they sodomised a 16-year-old boy. A senior police official told Kaieteur News that the teen has claimed that he was sexually assaulted at around 21:00 hrs last Sunday by three ranks at the Stabroek Market Outpost. The teen, who is said to be a commercial sex worker, was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation late yesterday afternoon for a medical examination, and was also interviewed by a police rank and a social worker. He was discharged from the GPHC at around 22:20 hrs. The official said that the teen identified the alleged perpetrators as a rank in police uniform “with a gold tooth”, and two other ranks in plainclothes. “The police ranks who performed duty that night will be placed under close arrest to facilitate the investigation,” the official said. “Wherever the hammer falls it will fall, and they will face the full brunt of the law.” A relative of the teen told Kaieteur News that the alleged victim was recently released from the New Opportunity Corps and they had received several complaints from staffers there of sexual misconduct. The relative said that after leaving the NOC, the teen would frequent an area in the city that was popular with male commercial sex workers. Kaieteur News was also told that the ‘victim’ was sometimes seen in a police vehicle. The allegation against the police comes in the wake of allegations by former prisoner Colwyn Harding that a police rank beat him and sodomised him with a condom-covered baton. The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR)-conducted probe has recommended assault charges against the rank.