A police investigation has been launched to shed light on the circumstances under which a 3 year old boy injured his private parts. The boy, who lives in the Phoenix area, told his mother that a teacher put a toy in his private area. The Child Development Unit (CDU) of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Welfare was informed about this case.
The mother of the child, who works in a call center, told the police to have taken her son to the Victoria Hospital in Candos after this confidence, but the doctor on duty refused to examine him. This, he said, concerns the Police Medical Officer (PMO).
It was late in the evening of Monday, May 9, that the 27-year-old mother went to the Phoenix Police Station to report a case of “causing child to be sexually abused”. She explained that every morning around 7:45 a.m., she drops her son off at a pre-primary school and picks him up around 4:15 p.m. in the afternoon. On Monday afternoon, May 9, while she was bathing her son, he told her that he was in pain. She then asked her son about it, and the boy then confided that the teacher did not clean him properly.
She then applied a shower gel on that part of his body but before she could even rub her hand that her son pushed it away and started screaming. The mother took her son to her room to examine him. She found that the child had reddish wounds in that area.
At about 6:30 p.m. the same day, she took her son to the Victoria Hospital in Candos. The doctor in the emergency room did not want to examine him and told her that this was a PMO matter. The young mother told the police that she agreed that her son should be examined by a forensic doctor and a psychologist from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Welfare.
The boy was examined in the late afternoon of Tuesday, May 10 by a forensic doctor at the hospital of Candos.
From 2015 to 2022 16 students have been sexually abused in Mauritius
“From January 2015 to date, 16 students have been victims of sexual abuse in state and private secondary schools in Mauritius. As for Rodrigues, two cases have been recorded”. This was revealed by the Minister of Education, Leela Devi Dookun-Luchoomun on Tuesday, May 10 in the National Assembly.
