There has been a “discernible” rise in the number of children killed, maimed or sexually assaulted over the last decade as “deliberate collateral damage” in domestic violence cases, Jamaica’s prosecutorial authority has revealed. In particular,.
GOVERNMENT Senator Dr Saphire Longmore has made a strong call for adults who murder children to be given a mandatory minimum sentence of life imprisonment, or the death penalty.
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One of Jamaica’s leading sociologists, Orville Beckford, says imposing harsher penalties on persons found guilty of committing crimes against children will not, by itself, reduce the extent to which minors fall prey to vicious criminals..
A 27-year-old man is in police custody over Saturday's alleged rape and fatal stabbing of 8-year-old Talia Thompson, a grade four student of Discovery Bay Primary and Infant School in St Ann, the police say. The suspect, believed to be a.
ST ANN Dreams of an eight-year-old schoolgirl from St Ann fresh from the Mini Miss St Ann pageant were dashed yesterday after the “promising” Talia Thompson was savagely raped and stabbed to death in her Discovery Bay community. The news has.