Let this be a lesson

Dear Editor,

A newspaper article stated that 14-year-old Kayalicia Simpson, the Donald Quarrie High School promising model student who was hacked to death, was pregnant came as no surprise to residents of the Newlands Housing Scheme in St Thomas.

This case bears out the point that if you see or suspect anything 'funny' happening with regard to a child involving any person or adult, we should not wait to tell it to the authorities; you could save a life.

In this case, all involved in and around that household should be brought to book. Let this case be a precedent, and the media can run with it like they do with less serious cases of fraud and other politically connected matters when high-profile people are involved.

Let every child in this country be high-profile and important. In many of these cases I have seen, it is revealed after the tragedies that people in and around the district, street or community either knew or had their suspicions and no one said anything. These are horrendous crimes and should be included at the level of the Crime Stop progamme with all the witness protection and the secrecy involved.

Michael Spence

Kingston 6

micspen2@Hotmail.com

Let this be a lesson

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